Top 78 NASCAR Quotes

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NASCAR is one of the most American sports. With that in mind, check out the top 78 NASCAR quotes.

#78 – 70. NASCAR Quotes

78. The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. – Junior Johnson

77. Dale Earnhardt quote: You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

76. I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners. – Mitt Romney

75. And now he’s taken up television announcing because he forgot how to drive, I guess. – Kyle Petty

74. Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny, A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious. – Carlos Mencia

73. I’ll apologize to them after they get me to the front! Upon being told by his crew chief that he needed to conserve his tires. – Dale Earnhardt

72. It’s basically the same, just darker, on the difference between night racing and daytime racing. – Alan Kulwicki

71. Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal – Kyle Petty

70. To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: good ol’ boys as they referred to themselves. That’s exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public. – Brock Yates

#69 – 60. NASCAR Quotes

69. It’s basically the same, just darker. – Alan Kulwicki

68. If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’ is an old NASCAR expression. Junior Johnson had this to say about his creativity when it came to building cars: – Junior Johnson

67. They’d tell me it was illegal, I’d plead guilty, and they’d carry it away thinking they caught me. But they didn’t check some other things that I thought were even more special. – Junior Johnson

66. You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. – Dale Earnhardt

65. NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get. – Rick Santorum

64. Reciting a list of sponsors was never the most memorable part of an interview with DW during his driving days. – Darrell Waltrip

63. I had a horror of kissing girls before a race. It started many years ago when I was a rookie. A girl kissed me before a race and I spun me out and back through a fence. She kissed me later and the same thing happened. In an effort to break the jinx, she kissed me twice before the next race. So what happened? I flip end over end seven times. I don’t even kiss my wife before a race. – Fireball Roberts

62. Years ago, you used to get out and fight and run around and chase each other with a jackhammer and stuff like that. Those were the good ol’ days. – Dale Earnhardt Jr.

61. Very few make it big in racing, and the real reward for most is in the joy of competition. – Junior Johnson

60. He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner. – Buddy Baker

#59 – 50. NASCAR Quotes

59. You win some, lose some, and wreck some. – Dale Earnhardt

58. When you start thinking too much about wrecks and high speeds, it’s time to quit. – Glen Wood

57. Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us, comparing NASCAR fans to NBA fans. – Jeff Gordon

56. Or, if you’re Ricky Bobby, just have a cougar ride in the car with you. – Glen Wood

55. Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. – Caroline Baum

54. I never lost my job while I was leading a race. – Buddy Baker

53. Rudd had been asked what Kevin Harvick said to him after Rudd spun Happy into the wall late in a 2003 race at Richmond. – Ricky Rudd

52. I didn’t understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you’ll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right.

51. In NASCAR, you don’t have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You’ve just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it. -Jeff Gordon

50. Every driver lives to win races. As Dick Trickle said, Why would you race if you weren’t going to be up front? – Buddy Baker

#49 – 40. NASCAR Quotes

49. Drive it like you stole it, homie, to Jimmie Johnson during the final race of the 2006 Chase. – Chad Knaus

48. The only thing I think about is winning…races and the championship. It’s like hunting and fishing. You want to catch the most fish or shoot the most ducks, with the least shells. You don’t want to be standing there with a whole pile of shells on the ground and one duck. – Dale Earnhardt

47. Yes, NASCAR IS a Sport – Kyle Petty

46. Johnson went on to win the first of five consecutive championships (and counting). – Chad Knaus

45. Wallace on hanging on to the top 10 in points prior to a Pocono race. – Rusty Wallace

44. I think when you look at our team, you have to say that the weak point is probably still the driver. – Tony Stewart

43. Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports … all others are games. – Ernest Hemingway

42. Robby’s got a little problem going faster under caution than he does under green. – Jeff Gordon

41. I got in the ambulance and looked back over there and I said, Man, the wheels ain’t knocked off that car yet. Get out. I gotta go. – Dale Earnhardt

40. Driving a race car is like dancing with a chainsaw. – Cale Yarborough

#39 – 30. NASCAR Quotes

39. Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are. – Jesse Ventura

38. The Lord works miracles. He did one yesterday in front of 35,000 people. – Michael Waltrip

37. I’d say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn’t do his part, then it’s just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative. – John Wes Townley

36. I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell. – Rusty Wallace

35. The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car. It’s the one who refuses to lose. – Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

34. The King had more than his share of terrifying wrecks, but we can all be thankful he’s still a part of NASCAR today. – Richard Petty

33. I’m sure many drivers have thought that about their fellow competitors over the years. – Buddy Baker

32. We all envy the drivers and wish we had their job, but they put their lives on the line every time they suit up for a race. – Mario Andretti

31. When I came into Winston Cup, I didn’t have nothing. – Dale Earnhardt

30. We had the wrong gear, wrong springs, wrong shocks and wrong car. We had the right beer, but other than that, we got stomped. – Sterling Marlin

#29 – 20. NASCAR Quotes

29. I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I’ve learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do. – Roger Staubach

28. Here’s a video of what Michael Waltrip was referring to. – Michael Waltrip

27. I couldn’t hear him. He’s got that little yap-yap mouth. I couldn’t tell what he was saying. – Ricky Rudd

26. I loved the game. Maybe I’d have four of five new things on a car that might raise a question. But I’d always leave something that was outside of the regulations in a place where the inspectors could easily find it. – Junior Johnson

25. The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. – Mario Andretti

24. Marlin was sponsored by Coors Lite at the time. At least he could find one positive on a tough day. – Sterling Marlin

23. His wife wears the firesuit in that family and tells him what to do. – Joey Logano

22. NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We’re not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what’s going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That’s the most important thing.-Jimmie Johnson

21. The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next. – Richard Petty

20. I’m not sure picking on Kevin Harvick was the wisest thing for Logano to do, but the line became an instant classic. – Joey Logano

#19 – 10. NASCAR Quotes

19. Too bad that’s not what the sponsors want. – Dale Earnhardt Jr.

18. The excitement and danger of NASCAR are the reasons drivers love to race and why fans show up. – Darrell Waltrip

17. In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour? – Dale Earnhardt

16. Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. – Dale Earnhardt

15. You win some, lose some and wreck some. – Dale Earnhardt

14. Adam Petty, whose career was tragically cut short by his death in an accident during practice, was NASCAR’s first fourth-generation driver. – Adam Petty

13. Jeff was more than a little sarcastic when he said this about Robby Gordon. – Jeff Gordon

12. If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we’re missing the love part of the equation. – Tony Stewart

11. NASCAR logic isn’t always logical. – Darrell Waltrip

10. I had a jackass driving for me, and now I am rid of him. – Junior Johnson

#9 – 1. NASCAR Quotes

9. Drive it like you stole it, homie. – Chad Knaus

8. Everyone knows NASCAR driving is a dangerous endeavor, none better than the drivers themselves. – Cale Yarborough

7. If the lion didn’t bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn’t be exciting. – Darrell Waltrip

6. If you don’t cheat, you look like an idiot, if you cheat and don’t get caught, you look like a hero, if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong. – Darrell Waltrip

5. My grandfather is the King, my dad is the Prince. I guess that makes me the butler. – Adam Petty

4. I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That’d be cool. With everything he’s done and how professional he’s remained through it all, I think he’s an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done. – Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

3. I was in the right place at the right time. – Mel Allen

2. Darrell Waltrip was a handful as a driver, and Junior Johnson was none too sorry to see him move to Rick Hendrick’s team after the 1986 season. – Junior Johnson

1. Have the right people in the right places, working together – Roger Staubach

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