Elliott Sadler Quotes (79 Quotes)

We could use a lot of information on Saturdays that we can use toward Sunday. We always have that thought in the back of our mind that if we can just help our Cup car one little bit, it will make us better on Sunday.

In our sport, this is the big one. It's what we think about all winter, and it's the one race we spend months preparing for. They are all important, but the Daytona 500 is the most important race we run.

My whole body is shaking right now. This is such a fast track. It was very nerve-racking, but very fun.

Any time you come to Charlotte, you've got to beat (Johnson). We've got one up on 'em right now.

I don't know why a different winner has won here every year. It's just whoever is hot at the right time.

I was shaking pretty bad. My 'shaking meter' usually tells my guys crew how good I run. When I came in, that was the first thing they checked.

The philosophy has changed in how you race for a championship. The whole thrust is on getting into that top 10 to give yourself a chance. Once you get there, luck comes into play, and anything can happen.

It's a great feeling, my guys have worked so hard this off-season. We've had the best pit crew in the garage the last couple of years and they showed it again today.

I've got a great comfort level working with Kevin -- I've worked with him now for two years and he's just been behind the scenes more than anything,

The car is so fast and so smooth and everyone has their cars sucked down in the front, ... It's such a good car we just need to get some luck.

Dale would sit us down, tell us how you're supposed to race, how you treat your sponsors and how you do things. We don't have that stature figure anymore for young kids to look up to. It'd be neat to have another Dale Earnhardt step up and be the voice of all the drivers in the garage, but right now we don't have that.

I couldn't stand here right now and tell you who has a better chance of winning, the guys who have won here before or a new guy that hasn't won here. It's just whoever is hot at the right time.

I have 32 dogs. I've been raising dogs for about 15 years. I'm not married. I don't have any kids. They're kind of like my kids when I go home.

We can't really worry about whom we're racing and who we're not racing. We just need to go up there and run the best way we can, whether it's taking chances like two tires or four tires or whatever. I feel like the pressure is not on us. I think the guys that are only one or 11 points behind or 10 points ahead of 10th place have more pressure than we have. I think that we have to go up with the mindset that we've just got to race as hard as we can and not really worry about the points.

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

I told Doug Yates we are going to get another pole here this weekend, ... It's a lot of fun to drive everybody is really happy right now. It's really cool to run this well every week we just need a little bit of luck right now. I am going to sleep on a different side of the bed tonight and get up on a different side of the bed and see if that will bring us some luck tomorrow.

I think we just have a new attitude. We feel like we're all going into war together. I feel like I am the quarterback of this race team and it's time for me act like it.

We've got three pedals in these cars and the middle one is the brake. As many times as he's been drafting here, he knows that you always stack up at the end of every straightaway. It's the way the draft works.

I'm kind of scared on how much grip is out there right now, ... It's too much grip for this racetrack. I liked it better two years ago when you slid around a lot.

We're still frustrated not being in the top 10. I think we're a good enough team to be in the Chase, but we're not going to hang our heads and cry about it. There's a lot of good race teams out there.

In our position, you just can't mess up. (The pressure is) just amplified a little bit. But that's part of racing. For my team, the word points is not even going to come out of our mouths when we get to California. We're going there to win the race because we had so much fun there last year in victory lane.

Right now, I could care less about New Hampshire. It's Bristol, California and Richmond -- that's it. We're going to bring the best stuff we've got these last three races starting with this weekend we're bringing back the car we won the pole and finished second with in the spring. It's hard to say whether you want to be going to Bristol with the situation we're in right now. It's a place where you're forced into a lot of situations that you don't necessarily want to be in. There's absolutely no give and take and anything can happen there so it's a well earned top-five if you can get one.

Nineteen laps to go, running for a million bucks, you're going to do every little trick in the trade and everything you know how to do to try and win the race, ... Mark outsmarted me a little bit on that one. That was a great job. He did a great job.

I think it's up to the drivers. We don't know where the line is until somebody crosses it. Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the envelope come (today).

We had a lot of contact tonight, but you know what I'm not going to hang my head. These guys worked their butts off all year long but we didn't make the Chase. The world's not over with. The main thing is that we need to go and win a race. I think that would be good for all the guys.

I'm going to take a picture for a class.

I think the guys that are only one of 11 points behind or 10 points ahead of 10th place have more pressure than we have,

It scared me half to death.

He doesn't mind telling you what's on his mind and kind of the plan that he wants to do. I'm the same way, so, we've kind of hit it off pretty good.