Full Throttle

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical"

"You win some, lose some, and wreck some."

"It's basically the same, just darker."

"Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."

"... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds."

"Around the track, Brooke isn't looked upon as a beauty queen anymore; she's portrayed as the ice princess. The former Miss Winston is now about as welcome around here as a nicotine patch. When her name is mentioned, these good ol' boys scrunch up their noses as if you offered them a six-pack of O'Doul's."

"Racing is a matter of spirit not strength."

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari."

"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself."

"It don't mean shit right now... Daddy's won here 10 times."

"If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation."

"If I died right now, my life would be complete."

"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."

"Do you think you'll be driving a race car for the rest of your life?"

"With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."

" Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games."

"I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race."

"I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways."

"To finish first, you must first finish."

"Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second."

"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines"

"You're not a racing driver, you're a f***ing idiot!"

"I've had a jackass driving for me, and now I am rid of him."

"You've got to be that desperate to try to win a race? He must not want to race a long time because that's going to some pretty extreme measures. Whatever. That's just the way he drives, the way he thinks."

"I think he's a punk. And I wish he was sitting right here beside me."

"When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it's the other way round."

"I'm about 15 pounds heavier. I've got highlights in my hair."

"It's the last straw for Roush Racing. We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists effective today."

"That's baloney, man. That's what's wrong with America now. Every time somebody screws up, we tell them it's all right. You don't pay your bills? You can file bankruptcy. You kill somebody? Spend 10 years in jail, and we'll let you out. That's what's wrong with society now, man. If you do the crime, do the time. If you had the guts to do it, have the guts to take your punishment."

"You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don't think having an 18-year-old, somebody who's probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me."

"I love this kind of racing, (but) these guys sure change their personalities in race mode. They're like Doberman pinschers with a hand grenade in their mouths."

"I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I'm peddling as hard as I can to stay in front of 'em. I'm looking behind me driving like hell."

"You've started a lot of engines."

"If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong."

"The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses."

"When I started racing my father told me, 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones."'

"If you think the last four words of the national anthem are 'Gentlemen, start your engines,' you might be a redneck."

"You drive the car, you don't carry it."

"We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made."

"I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black."

"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose."

"If I have to, I'll buy every piece of property around the track to make sure it stays open."

"I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race."

“In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?”

"Years ago, you used to get out and fight and run around and chase each other with a jackhammer and stuff like that. Those were the good ol' days."

"Dear Lord baby Jesus, we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family. My two sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And of course my red hot smokin' wife, Carley, who is a stone cold fox."

"I feel like it is something that SCCA has loaned NASCAR and I feel like we should give it back to them."

"She particularly loved racing with and beating her brothers."

"Sometimes it seemed like the more you drove the less money you had. I remember one time Buck Baker and Lee Petty and I had to put our money together just to split a hot dog and a Coke."

"Be born rich."

"They told me if I saw a red flag to stop, They didn't say anything about the checkered flag. I wondered where all the cars were and then as I was all along on the track, I noticed them all in the pits. They finally threw the red flag and I pulled in. I had finished third."

"You best be keepin' an eye on your son's asshole at a NASCAR event."

"Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail."

"It's his life, not mine. I'm sure if James Hylton could do it, I could. But I've got better sense."

"Oh, what a basket of junk," it drives like a station wagon, an old station wagon, like an old Oldsmobile station wagon, green with wood panel trim on the sides."

"Gentlemen, I won't be dictated to by the union." Six-foot-five, 240-pound Big Bill France loosened his tie, removed his glasses, and proceeded to put the "fear of God" into his workers. Before he had "this union stuffed down [his] throat," he swore, he would shut down his entire operation, plow it up, and plant corn.

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum."

"If I find out that that caution was for the show, I'll choke."

"I pity the fool who don't think NASCAR is a sport!"

"The astronauts got nothing on me."

"The competition, of course, is No. 1. Dale Earnhardt Jr., we have to remember, is Dale Earnhardt Jr. He could sell a chocolate popsicle to a woman in a white dress. It's easy. ... Kyle Busch, he wouldn't be able to sell a favorite candy bar to a kid, I guess."

"It was all about winning today because we want those extra 10 bonus points. If you're solidly in the top 10 right now -- settling for second, you might as well kiss your aunt with a hairy mustache. That's generally not something you really care about."

"That's the way race people are. If they think anybody's got money, we're all hookers."

"He's got a 10-foot ego, and a four-foot body, and it ain't working too good right now."

"Robby's got a little problem going faster under caution than he does under green."

"Hill and Moss? They've only got two hands and two feet, haven't they? I can dust 'em off."

"If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting."

"Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter."

"I think it's gonna be some exciting racing, gonna see something you'd probably never seen on Fox."

"There are certain guys who you can race with, and they'll race you hard and clean. "[Earnhardt Sr.] is not one of those guys."

"I was the lucky bastard who got all the credit when things were going right, but I always felt the crew didn't want to have anybody but me driving the car. That type of chemistry you cannot force; it happens by destiny once in a while."

"There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone."

"I jumped out of the car to address this thing, knowing I had to address it right then or run from Cale [Yarborough] the rest of my life. And with that, Cale went to beating on my fist with his nose."

"When I first came down here, I was accepted but I can't say why. I would say a lot of people were scared of me as I didn't care whether I was upside down or not."

"You've got to have at least two a day, or you're going to have bad luck. I think the most I ever had was 27 in one weekend. That was over a four-day weekend for a late model show; a little bit of competitive eating going on."