Todd Bodine Quotes (13 Quotes)

I'm a little surprised. I was struggling earlier. It's hard not to make a mistake. I was hoping to at least back up my time from the first run, but we'll take it. We're here for fun, but if we're not the fastest we're mad.

ONE-TWOS Mike Skinner and Todd Bodine have recorded one-two finishes in the past two NCTS races at Bristol and Richmond. I'm not too disappointed with finishing second to Mike twice in a row, ... In both races, Mike just had 'fresher' tires at the end. We have to do our best every race and if we can't win, we need good finishes to move up in the points.

It used to be a series where a young kid with a mediocre team could come in and run 20th and gain a ton of experience and knowledge. Now there are 25 Cup guys out there, and these young guys can't get in the race.

I think we had him. There's no doubt in my mind we had him. But those are the rules, and Mark's sitting there in victory lane and we're here second. It's their ballpark and their ball, so we've got to play by their rules.

Right now, we've just got it going on, ... If we could bottle it, we could make millions.

We know there are a lot of good teams gunning for the championship, but we are focused on our job. Its nice to know the competition feels that Ted and I are the guys to beat.

Everybody gets lucky once in a while. I really messed up letting Ted get by me. I wasn't going to get beat because of my own mistake again this year. I knew I had a good enough truck to get around him.

His racing knowledge and experience is going to make our whole team better. It gives us a chance to have two trucks run at the front every week, have both of them in the championship hunt, and there's no reason that can't happen.

We needed long green flag runs. That's when our truck is always the best, and it was no different tonight, ... They started slipping and sliding. Skinner got loose one time, and I ran under him.

Once I looked back and saw they were racing side-by-side, I knew all I had to do was not make a mistake and I'd be all right,

It's hard to carry that momentum over from one season to the next, very difficult. There's no one reason why we ran good. It's just about combinations - crew chief, driver, truck, crew - you've got to have every piece of the puzzle and we did. It just worked.

This Toyota Tundra was incredible to drive, ... I'm happy for this team who have worked a lot of long nights to get to victory lane. I loved this. The Toyota people were fantastic to work with. We're going to be up late tonight celebrating.

I don't know. This is a great class, a lot of good drivers. I don't know what to expect. I just want to stay out of everyone's way and have a good time.