Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions.

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

I'm just a normal person.

They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.

I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.

We have to take the good with the bad.

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.

These regional series - we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.

I've been very fortunate to be part of the sport and be successful.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

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.