When someone tells me they've never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.

I know a lot of Cup Series champions, and they each have a very different personality. They all go about handling adversity, their challenges, and even confrontation a little differently.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

Sometimes, you know, you - drivers are worried about being misdiagnosed and maybe missing a race when they don't really have a concussion. But you can never take the risk there. It's just too dangerous to layer concussions.

I don't think any of us knew the dangers of repeated concussions or the fact that even when you got a concussion, the idea to go get treatment for it never entered our minds. We just didn't have - we weren't educated enough. We were really ignorant to it. I would get concussions in my early 20s racing, and it was a bit of a badge of honor.

I had a couple of chances to go inside the broadcast booth when I was out of the car in 2016 and loved it a lot.

I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I know about barbecue from those books.

I love stock-car racing and NASCAR. I kind of take offense to anybody who has any cross words about it. It's kind of like your brother. You can talk all the crap you want about him, but you won't let anyone else do it.

I think that any time you share a secret, you're a little nervous about people's reaction to it.

The first win was racing my Late Model at Myrtle Beach. It was twin 50s. We'd usually run a 100-lap feature, but it rained the week before, so they split the next weekend in half and made twin 50s. And I won the first one.

A. J. Allmendinger is really hard to pass. He races really, really hard for every position. And you know, that's his right. But it's very frustrating at times.

You form pretty strong opinions about the guys you compete against. You're all very competitive; you're all very selfish. So it's easy to drum up some strong opinions in a second's notice, like, 'Argh! This guy!'

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean 'nervous' for me.

I'm a big fan of music. I need to be listening to music most of the time during the day.

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

I always thought, if I wasn't racing, one of my dream jobs would be as a scout, going town to town and trying to find bands in all these little dive bars. That would be so much fun, discovering music that way as opposed to from your phone.

Me and my dad never talked racing. We just didn't. I wouldn't go up and ask him about that unless I wanted to upset him.

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.

I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.

When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.

Every ball matters - if with the last ball the opposition need four to win, and you've gone for 96, can you get that out of your mind and bowl a dot ball and win the game?

I have four dogs - Sadi, a Retriever, and Oscar, Ruby and Bella, who are Yorkies.

If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.

I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.

Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.

I have started not to take things too seriously, loving life is my motto.

Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.

That's a beautiful thing about India, they got such a big pool of players to call upon. If somebody gets injured, the replacements are generally pretty good.

Generally I don't say too much on the field. However, I am a fast bowler and with that comes the responsibility of saying a word or two and getting in a guy's face.

I come across as quite aggressive and quite in people's faces and everything like that, but I know where to draw the line.

I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.

Test matches are what really drive me to perform.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.

It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!

I would love to win a trophy for South Africa in white ball cricket.

Normally if I am on holiday I'll be planning a fishing trip or a surfing trip.

I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock. He is one of my favourite people in the world.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

I used to be grumpy. I am no more. I am old now. See my grey beards.

I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.

I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.

I've never chased records.

As long as I've got that urge and that fight and fire inside of me I'll continue and records will come and records will be broken. But the day I don't feel that kind of stuff I'm happy to walk away.

It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

The more 'A' side cricket that can be played, it will keep the fringe of international cricket interested.

I think 'A' sides are extremely important, as close as you can get to international cricket. You are often playing against internationals from different countries and it definitely bridges the gap between our domestic game and international cricket.