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.

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.

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.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

The natural-born investor is a myth.