Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early.

It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.

What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that.

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.