Mark Martin Quotes

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards.

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live.

Kill one and you might as well kill 21.

Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.