I hear a lot of people who say they enjoy watching the road course races over the ovals.

I go out there to do my best week in and week out to win races.

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I can. That's what being a race car driver is all about and that's why I do what I do.

Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.

I'd take winning the championship over winning a Chase race any day of the week.

When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.

I love winning, and I hate losing.

I love Lowe's Motor Speedway, that's in Charlotte - that's my favorite track. I love going there. It's fun.

Hendrick definitely realises that we're young and trying to learn - and wrecking cars is part of how you learn. Jeff Gordon went through 20 something clips in his first season, but Rick Hendrick realised he had to take a chance on Jeff Gordon. They wrecked a lot of cars, but Jeff Gordon has given him four championships.

I don't know that many guys have ever been able to accomplish being able to win at every single active track that they've made starts at, and I look forward to trying to complete that feat.

As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.

Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it's every man for himself. It's me against the world. It's me against everybody else. Sometimes you're against your critics, as well, too.

My fans are great and amazing, but there's no way all of my fans are going to be able to fill up Bristol Motor Speedway.

Throughout your career, whether you're getting into the sport or have been it in for a number of years like me, there will always be obstacles. The important thing is how you deal with those obstacles and come back from any disappointment or setback, no matter how big or small.

I might be confident in what I do, and sometimes you can be cocky and confident because you know what your abilities are and you know what your car is going to give you.

I've never been very good at slowing down.

I think if you're a race car driver you want to succeed and be the best in your realm of racing.

You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'

For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn't as much media or there wasn't as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.

You've got to be able to take the highs and the lows, and certainly I am not very good at taking the lows. I'll be the first to admit it. But when the highs come your way you've got to treasure them because you never know how many more you'll get.

You can be as good as you can be behind the wheel physically, but you've also got to be there mentally.

We put fate in other people's hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn't work out for you.

I remember most all of my devoted fans, the ones who have been fans for a long time.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.

On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!

I guess people don't like me for getting as upset as I am sometimes when I lose, but that's me.

I like running my Super Late Models here and there and there are times when you go to those events and they are for $2,000 or $3,000 to win. There's no money involved in that; you're basically spending your money to go racing in those things but it's so enjoyable. For me, it's kind of like a golf game.

You know, I am who I am.

Certainly, different people show their emotions in different ways. Unfortunately for me, mine has never been very gracious and I don't know that it ever will be.

You know, I wish I had more time in the week.

Even though Richmond is a three-quarter mile, it's a fast short track... So it gives you - maybe you could call it a false of security a little bit, but it seems to be working for me.

Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.

There's no better benefit than being out on the racetrack, learning what's going on with the track and the tire and all that stuff. To me, that's a big influence.

My dream car is a Saleen S7. It's made by Saleen in California; it's basically America's Ferrari.

I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.

I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.

I don't necessarily ever put a number on how many we can win in a season.

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.

I think my reputation is pretty fair among the drivers. The drivers know what they get when they see me or talk to me - if they get the chance to talk to me, because some of them I just don't talk to because I don't like them, so they should know.

I'm a big Eminem fan, so I like listening to him. My wife doesn't, though.

My first paycheck came from HobbyTown USA in Las Vegas. They had like planes and trains and RC cars, things like that.

My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.

For me, I love football.

I don't watch much golf.

Having a cellphone in your pocket, you can get anything you want anytime you want it. Right then and there, boom, you have it.

Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.

I try to eat healthy a little bit.

I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.

I'll tell you what, this is a humbling sport.