Tony Stewart Quotes (89 Quotes)

But Stewart also seemingly has gotten a handle on his emotions. He even went so far Friday night as to pull out a piece of paper wrapped in a red ribbon. Mike Helton said I had to show him I had my anger management certificate, to prove I finished the course, ... This is it.

The easiest way to sum up the relationship between the drivers and NASCAR is that we are pawns on a chessboard. We don't make the big moves. We're just sacrificial lambs so to speak. They have their way of explaining to you very quickly that you can be replaced very, very easily in this sport no matter how popular you are.

Our number one goal this year is to go win the Daytona 500.

As the race went on, we just kept fighting, trying to get the (car's) balance right. But we stayed in the top 10 all day. Most of the beginning of the race we stayed in the top five until we got a little behind, and we just never could really get caught up. But we were able to maintain all day. So it wasn't by any means a disastrous day, but with the big picture I would have liked it to be better.

It was just one of those screwed-up nights that's probably going to dictate the way the Chase comes out,

We were both kind of laughing about it and hugging on each other about it, ... It doesn't matter what team he goes to, we still view each other as teammates -- even after the end of the year.

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

You're 11th, but a lot of those guys gotta stop, so we're really more like fifth... I may have over-adjusted on that last stop, so I'll take the blame, but the reason you may be loose is because your right rear quarter panel is hanging almost straight out after the 20 (Stewart) hit you.

This makes sleeping tonight a little bit easier. I don't ever remember being part of something like that. I'm not real excited about having to be in that situation (today). But if that's what it comes down to with five to go, trust me, I'm not backing out.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

If the caution doesn't come out, we're going to run third, ... We had a good day. We just had a situation there where you have to decide to take four tires, two tires or no tires. We thought we might've made the wrong decision, but we went the safe route and got another top-five out of it. I'm really proud of this Home Depot team.

Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.

Stewart himself was upset with Biffle, and Johnson was too, for Biffle not moving out of the way in the closing laps. I don't understand why Greg held up both me and Jimmie, because he was a lap down, ... That kept us both from having a chance.

The coolest thing is you have 160,000 fans that you can see all day long or all night long. I can remember (passing) Jeff Gordon for the lead and I could see the people cheering. The grandstands are right on top of you. When you get out of the car after practice or qualifying, you can see what the fans are eating and what they're drinking. You're that close.

I hate to say I'm growing up because it scares me to think I might be but maybe I'm starting to realize there are more things to life than driving a race car.

It's a perfect place to start when you're in the Chase for the championship.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport,

Once they dropped the checkered flag last week, the points were what they are. There was nothing we could do to change that. All we could do was control the emotions we had about it.

Guys are doing it in the middle of the corner, coming off it and coming on. It's softening the front bumper because it's the guys that are doing the hitting. Trust me, I did my share of it, too.

I got a little loose over there in (turn) three. It's just one lap. We've got 400 of them tomorrow.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

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,

The thing that has amazed me is that most of the questions I'm answering today are all theoretical. Well, I'm not a philosopher.

I need a renewal of my life insurance policy, to tell you the truth. I just can't wait for this thing to be over so I can get out of here and hopefully not be hurt.

It's nice that they don't have to talk about my behavior anymore, ... That's the biggest honor you can have, for the guys you race with to give you that kind of compliment.

They've never given up on me, ... We didn't want to win it like we did in 2002. We won it right this time.

I'm going to say this because I know my fans like my brutal honesty. Every year, all the competitors go out to the bar and try to get me drunk so I can't run the next day. It didn't work this time.

For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal.

He goes, No, I bought the trophy.' Kenny knew that I'm the only person in the whole garage area that would probably appreciate that, how jealous I was that he had the first Champ Car trophy that A.J. Foyt ever won.

I don't think Chad thought deep enough into it to realize that you don't want to do that with us because you're picking on the wrong guy there because we pick back. I think he'll be a little less vocal these next few weeks.

Who cares All I want to do is just go home. ... I don't care about anything else right now.

The unfortunate thing is I think Greg was a lap down, ... I don't really understand why he held up Jimmie first and then held me up and kept both of us from having a chance to close in.

I feel like we've really taken our program to another level. It's not been because of me, it's been because of the two young guys coming in. Their attitude has kind of spread through the shop.

Then all I need to do is stay away from the McDonald's drive-up window and not use all that new equipment to hang my clothes on.

I am really happy. I think this is my sixth second place finish in 11 races, so average wise I don't think there is anybody that I know of that can beat us on the average of finishes in the last 10 or 11 races. So we are pretty proud of what this team has been able to accomplish here. It's been an awesome day. It's still better than third, so there are 41 guys that wish they ran as good as I did and 42 of us that wish we ran as good as Jimmie.

It was a solid lap, ... We spent the first hour in race trim knowing the weather might be bad on Saturday. On our next run, we went out for speed and that put us on top of the board. We went back out and moved it up again on the list. We picked up the same amount of time. It was all about going out there and trying to be smooth on the lap. It was a good day all the way around.

With four weeks to go you can't narrow it down yet. It's too early. The math is how you do it. Mathematically, everybody is still in it. As long as everybody is mathematically in it, I don't know how you can count anybody out of it.

Like I said after we won the Brickyard 400, ... if I die tomorrow, when I wake up, I've had a great life to this point.

I'm too lazy to work my real job. I love what I do. I've been doing it for 26 years.

Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003 has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, ... You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.

Yeah, but he's around it every week. It's hard when you're not around that, to go every week to get caught up. Every year that goes by, it just seems like that's a part of my career that is kind of like a chapter in a book that seems it's closed and we've moved on to another chapter.

Even when we weren't running good, we were having fun,

I think everybody's pretty worn out after being in Daytona for so long. California means a normal routine and a chance for the crew guys to get back to their families for a couple of days before heading to another racetrack.

I looked at it and thought, 'Man, I really don't feel like wasting my time going up this fence today,'

I'm a little sore. The doctors were great and did a pretty thorough evaluation of me. They didn't find anything broken, but just to be sure, they fitted me with a cast that I'll wear until I meet with my doctors on Monday. It looks a lot worse than it is.

Yeah, Matt always thinks that. I guess Matt didn't think anything when he got me sideways over in (Turn) 2. He should have thought about that first. He got back what he started in the first place.

I'm dying right now, ... Too tired to chase fences right now. Give me five minutes and I'll be ready.

I'd say this one was more exciting. Last year it was an isolated incident that made that one. Being three-wide, three-deep in the final five laps is, I think, a pretty exciting finish.

He should have been smart enough to know not to be knocking down a guy's door in the first 20 laps. He has no room to complain. He started the whole thing and I finished it.

We'll have two great performances by Montgomery Gentry and Phil Vassar, and joining us for the fun will be a bunch of my buddies from NASCAR. We're making sure that anyone who comes to the concert is going to have a good time.