Well, it was probably the first night, the women's restroom in the pits being stopped up. So, the first night I realized it was a lot more than just turning on the lights, open the gates, sell tickets, hot dogs and the race goes fine. |
What kind of frustrated you about it is that NASCAR steps in and tells you what tire pressure (to use), which dictates how your car is going to handle, ... They did what they thought was in the best interest of safety of all us. We make the adjustment and the next thing you know, we have a problem. |
What kind of frustrated you about it is that NASCAR steps in, tells you what tire pressure which dictates how your car is going to handle, ... They did what they thought was in the best interest of safety of all us. We make the adjustment and the next thing you know, we have a problem. It's just one of those screwed-up nights. |
What we talk about is between Matt and me. |
What we talked about is between Matt and I, it was not between the media, Matt and I. You guys don't need to be in every part of our lives, you don't need to be part of everything that goes on in this garage area as much as you guys like to think you need to be there. |
What we talked about is between Matt and I. It was not between the media, [it was between] Matt and I. |
When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters. |
When I was living in Charlotte, I usually had to wait until late in the night to go to dinner because it would be such a scene at the restaurant with people wanting autographs and stuff, ... Here, I can go out whenever I want. People have really respected my privacy. I love it. |
When I'm not dragging the team down, I think it helps all of us, ... When the one person who is dragging everybody back gets on the same page and does his part, it makes a huge difference. |
When it comes to the mind game side of it, he's bringing a knife to a gunfight. |
When you get through a day like this, you're happy it's over because your brain has had all it can stand for one day of this, |
When you got a guy with the things like Chad was saying on the radio, it's like being inside a kindergarten room listening to it, |
When you know he's got the momentum and got a run on Brian like that, you've pretty much got to go with that line. I probably did push (Johnson) through the rest of the way, but that was where the momentum was at the time with one lap to go. If you stop and try to pick somebody up, you're probably going to drop back to sixth or seventh. |
When you're fat like me, you get hungry. ... I'm still hungry. I hadn't eaten since noon. I'm still too old and still too fat, but as long as those people keep cheering when I get up there, I'm going to keep doing it. |
When you're in the top-10 there at the end you've got to protect yourself. You've got to race hard but you've also got to protect yourself, and that's how you get into the Chase to begin with. It was just an unfortunate deal, but we always knew in the back of our minds that something like that could happen. We just didn't anticipate that it would happen in the first race of the Chase. |