“The first thing you do when you're in a streak like we've been in is you hide all the bullets in your house.”
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“Without a doubt, there's a lot of car owners and drivers right now that are thinking, 'Hmmm, am I behind on this thing?' ... These issues have indeed changed the landscape. No question.”
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“I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.”
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“It's such a different environment, I can't even tell you. Ten years ago, knocking on somebody's door saying 'Do you have a bottle of wine?', they would have laughed at me. It certainly has gone more toward wine-drinking than just beer-drinking for sure.”
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“It does open Pandora's Box a little bit. I've never seen anything like this, and I'm not sure I like what I see when I look at it.”
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“Matt and I are really good friends. And, he always races me clean and I always race him clean. I could have knocked him out of the way, but that's just not how I race him and he wouldn't have done that to me either.”
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“Matt and I are really good friends. He always races me clean and I always race him clean.”
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“The last two weeks I really let them down. This feels really good.”
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“I don't have an answer.”
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“That'd be even more exciting.”
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“The hardest thing that I've had to deal with is the understanding that I can't do everything. I just don't think that the driver can run the team anymore. I think he needs to be able to concentrate on driving.?The competition level is so big now, I need to focus on racing, not on the logistics part of it.”
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“The atmosphere. The heat, the humidity, the noise.] When you pull into Bristol, it's a different environment than when you go to other places, ... How you have to drive the racetrack is so intense and so aggressive. Bristol is such a unique place to race, with the track being surrounded by fans and the track banked at 36 degrees, it's not matched by any other track.”
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“There's a great misconception about [the points system], ... If [NASCAR] wanted to encourage more winning, they'd award more points for winning. The points system is not built to encourage winning, but better competition throughout the year.”
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“Dale Jarrett's chance to make the Chase was greatly harmed by a guy who was pretty much in the Chase, who just ran over him,”
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“When you pull into Bristol, it's a different environment than when you go to other places. How you have to drive the racetrack is so intense and so aggressive. Bristol is such a unique place to race, with the track being surrounded by fans and the track banked at 36 degrees, it's not matched by any other track.”
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“There's a great misconception about [the points system]. If [NASCAR] wanted to encourage more winning, they'd award more points for winning. The points system is not built to encourage winning, but better competition throughout the year.”
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“You're looking at teams that are going to do tire tests. There were teams that went to do tire tests the last two days. We're not testing anywhere, and with the limited testing, that is a huge disadvantage.”
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“Every team should have the chance to do a tire test. You have a situation that is not equal for everyone.”
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“I don't think anyone has replaced him. His impact in the sport behind the scenes is well-known by car owners and drivers that were around in that time.”
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“He didn't stomp his feet, cry and pout. He didn't lose it. He knew when the race was over it was time to be somebody different.”
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“He and Bill Jr. had a good relationship. As Bill has given more power to more people, that has diminished the impact of having a conversation with Bill Jr.”
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“I'd like to say that we had a great day and all's right with the world. This is a great way to start the season, but we've still got a long way to go.”
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“In all honesty, it's a matter of me not messing up. Today had nothing to do with me. The only impact I had on the day was to be a warm-blooded person who could turn the thing on and mash the gas.”
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“That's the best wind we've had down here in all of testing and everything else. It just played in our hands, and we had a car that could take advantage of it.”
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“I think we have things in place to make a lot of noise.”
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“It?s big. Hopefully, it?s another sign that this team is getting ready to turn things around.”
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“We knew we had a fast car [Saturday], we just didn't know how fast these others guys really were.”
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“I don't see any one person that everyone migrates to in this sport anymore. When you have an opportunity to pick the mind of a seven-time champion, that's a special thing.”
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“He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.”
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“There is time for both. When I am driving a race car I am driving a race car. But I take a lot of pride in the sponsors I work with.”
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“We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.”
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“Racing is safer today than it was five years ago, but we didn't know it. People ask me, 'Do you feel safer today in a race car than you did five years ago?' No, I don't. I felt safe five years ago. I thought we were doing all we could do. I didn't know we could do more.”
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“He and Bill Jr. had a really good relationship. As Bill Jr. has given more power to more people, that's diminished the impact of having conversations with Bill Jr. a little bit, although don't think for a minute Bill Jr. isn't stomping his feet somewhere. I think it's much more of an open community today. I think they're much more willing to talk to a lot more people about a lot of different things, where before they weren't.”
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“When I came into the sport, rookies didn't drive good race cars. You drove junk. Rookies don't step in driving junk anymore. They step in driving top cars because there is no junk. They step in driving really, really good stuff.”
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“Before that, it was kind of a macho thing. It was like, 'Just get in the race car and drive.' I've never concerned myself with being very macho. I try to be smart, be educated and do the right thing. That has become more popular today than it used to be. People are willing to talk about (safety) now.”
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“When you first make the initial impact, it still is big and it gets your attention. It's how you feel 30 minutes later that the big difference comes in.”
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“I knew we had a shot a running well but I didn't know we could run that well.”
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“We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.”
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“I think that Richard and everybody (at RCR) knew they needed to move forward. But I also think that any time they moved away from something that they were doing, they were moving further away from Dale.”
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