You always want to win.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

I feel like there's value in experience.

Life is an evolution.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he's won seven championships.

The officials in the garage do a great job.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

There's a difference between a superstar and a megastar.

Winning makes everything better.

When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.

It's always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.

Racing's my life.

I'm more comfortable inside the car than I am anywhere else.

There were some struggles throughout the year at RCR. In order to keep yourself relevant, you had to find a headline. In order to find a headline, you had to do something that wasn't right, like jump over a car or say something you shouldn't.

There's no bigger thrill than beating the guy you're not supposed to beat or winning a race you're not supposed to win.

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

One thing I can't stand is when people - not our team, but other people - don't respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text... using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.

In my opinion, the most stagnant thing in our sport is our schedule and our venues that we go to.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.

That's your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There's a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

Chase Elliott winning is better for our sport.

I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different.

I've been fortunate enough to have won a lot of races and do a lot of things in my career.

I like competition. For me, it is fun.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event.

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

I will not back down to anyone.