I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.
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When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.
I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.
I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.
It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.
There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.