He had one bad race. I don't think that means anything because he had one bad race. Just because he's not stacked up in the points doesn't mean he's not going to get there and have the great success we all know he will have. |
He has been back there knocking on the door and tonight he put it up front at the end. |
He made us all better drivers. |
He's been so incredible and respectful of me being the old-timer. I'm a huge Kurt Busch fan and always will be. |
He's young, he's aggressive, he has a lot of talent and he's got a cool-looking car. |
Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money. |
Humpy has tried to make it better ... but he shouldn't have tried to manipulate this racetrack in the first place. I don't know why it had to be more exciting for the fans than it was, because it was a great racetrack. |
I am going to go out there and do the best I can. That's all. I can control the effort ? our effort, my effort. I can't even come close to controlling the outcome of it. If we take our hit tomorrow, then that's what it is. |
I couldn't quit. I couldn't quit racing. Racing is my life. It's been my life since I was 15 years old. |
I didn't even work up a sweat. We just kept hitting stuff. This one is over and we'll pick up and go on. |
I don't believe the trophy makes the man. Tony Stewart, in my eyes, is the greatest race car driver I've watched drive in this era. A.J. Foyt might have been that when I was a little boy, but Tony Stewart is my driving hero. |
I don't know what my contribution to that is. I've just done what I thought was right all along, and, if that's a credit to Roush Racing, then good. If it's a good example for other people that work here, drivers and what have you, then good. You know? But I can't take any credit for it. |
I don't know what the problem was. That pretty much took us out of it. We still ran pretty good, getting back up to where we did. |
I don't really follow college basketball much, but I've been lead in the direction to pick Auburn as my favorite. I think they would be somewhat of an underdog, and that's right up my alley so I'll go with the Tigers. |
I drove the car harder than I had all race, but we had what we had and we came in second place. I don't like getting passed at the end, ever. But I didn't get robbed, I got beat. |