-Ralph Earnhardt's advice to Dale
"After all, you wouldn't take a mule to the Kentucky Derby."
-Warren Johnson... when asked about his spare race motors.
"Early on, the cars were getting faster and faster. And with good reason: Everybody was cheating."
-Richard Petty
"When I saw the wall coming through the car, I knew I was in trouble."
-Mike Harmon
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
-Vince Lombardi
"I drove down the middle, and I figured the hole was going to close. What I didn't figure, though, was that it was going to close on top of me."
-Michael Waltrip, after a 29 car pile up at Talladega
"There is no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200mph and suddenly getting hit from the rear."
-Darrell Waltrip
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do."
-Smokey Yunick
"We had the wrong gear, wrong springs, wrong shocks, and the wrong car. We had the right beer, but other than that, we go stomped."
-Sterling Marlin, sponsored by Coors Light
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you are right."
-Henry Ford
"Once you've raced, you never forget it... and you never get over it..."
-Richard Childress
"Whoever wins, wins...and whoever loses, loses."
-Tyler Askin, age 3