Kasey Kahne Quotes (40 Quotes)

Those guys are very talented. You can watch them and see how talented they are. Anybody that talented and likes going fast and doesn't have a problem racing close and jumping on top of each other just about wouldn't have a problem with any other type of racing. If he wanted to race NASCAR and he put in the time and effort, I don't see why he couldn't.

I saw Bill before the race and I wished him luck. It's exciting and I hope Bill gets a lot more opportunities.

This is the second time I've come here. I've had a great time both times. It's great that they've got NASCAR in Southern California. Thanks for all the support.

We're making progress and will continue to make it better.

This is a great victory. It's one of the tracks I have looked at since I started racing. This is a track you want to win at.

I doubt he'll sacrifice his Cup car tomorrow, ... He's got a lot riding on that, racing for points, and I doubt he wants to do that. If he wants to nudge, we can nudge, too.

We had a good finish Sunday. We'll take it and go on to Las Vegas. We have more work to do with the Dodge Charger. We'll work on some more things on the car and try to make it more comfortable to drive.

By the time I caught Jeff my tires were gone.

I'm excited to start first here at Phoenix. It's a great track and I have a lot of experience here. I'm looking forward to racing at night.

This is a great victory. The guys did an awesome job. They gave me the best car out there. I've always loved coming to Texas and racing in front of hundreds of thousands of fans out there. It's one of the best places we go all season long. ... This is awesome.

Tony was a little faster the first 20 or 25 laps of that run. Then we got equal and started reeling him in and just got battling with him. ... It was a good battle, a hard battle. He was doing all he could to hold us off, but at that point my car was turning better. I just waited until I got the opportunity and was able to set him up and make the pass.

There were times when I felt like we should try this or try that. It may have helped at times last year when we didn't have the Charger figured out. But right now the Charger is the car we definitely want to have.

We didn't make any adjustments. The engine is the best it's been in a restrictor plate race. I learned a lot.

As soon as I got through the disappointment (of the 2005 season), all I've wanted to do is get back in the car.

We had a great time. We got to the game around 1130 and the game started at 330. We stayed at least 30 minutes after the game and the whole place was still packed. It was a blast.

Last year I might not have been able to make that call, but today I felt strong enough to say we needed to do it. And the team trusted me enough to do it.

It probably wasn't worth it. It made Kyle pretty mad and he made a lot of mistakes after that, so I think I got in his head. But it's never worth it to upset NASCAR by doing something you're not supposed to do on a caution.

Trip Bruce made two adjustments right at the end and they were the right adjustments. He made the car turn the best it had throughout the whole race. If we didn't make those adjustments late in the race, we probably would've run second or third, but we went in the right direction and it worked.

I thought my first pole would be somewhere else. There are a lot of good drivers here this weekend -- 10 Winston Cup drivers and all the Busch regular drivers. To sit on the pole and be in front of the field Saturday is a big accomplishment for this team.

We're working on being consistently in the top 10, top 12 and getting ready for next year's Chase. We need the make the Chase and one way we need to do it is to be consistent and starting running in the top 12.

I probably had the best time of anybody to go out. It was our best qualifying in a while, and when the sun came back out, I was pretty excited. I didn't think there was anybody that was going to catch Greg.

One thing I did was watch Tony Stewart through the week and watch some of the things he does from the time he makes his first lap in practice until he's done racing that weekend.

I feel like we had a great race car at the test. We have to keep making the right adjustments and I have to give the right information to (team director) Kenny Francis. If we do that, we have as good a shot to win out there as anybody.

I was working real hard not to spin the tires. It was all about throttle control and how much you gave it and where you were in the corners.

It's still a really, really sensitive race car, especially in traffic. You can make a little change and it will totally hurt you here and help you a little bit there.

Mark came alongside me in lapped traffic and we just kept on racing him. He's as tough a competitor and as clean a competitor as you'll find and we won today, but just to race with Mark here in Atlanta is unbelievable.

I'm meeting with Dr. Jerry Petty in the morning and I talked to him Tuesday morning. Everything sounds good and I just need to get cleared before I can test.

I am the biggest Seahawks fan there is right now. My throat hurt so bad this morning when I woke up (from cheering). I acted just like a fan at one of our races.

Today, I was able to stay calm. It took a while to start reeling in the leaders. But we were able to make adjustments to make the car better and come back.

I got together with Kenny and started working with the new team, setting goals, and looking at what I did wrong.

It's much easier to figure things out on the track now than trying to figure them out during the offseason. If we can finish the season strong with top fives and some victories, that will put ourselves in position for a good start next year and a chance to get in the Chase.

We usually run well at Michigan ... I used the whole racetrack coming off turn four and that probably hurt us a little bit. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

I've enjoyed getting to see some of their tributes or some of their pictures that different racetracks have given them from 15 years ago when they were in other cars,

It's a little confusing and it keeps changing with the roles. Some people have left, and we've got some new people, too. Ray keeps looking for people who want to make a commitment, and that's what they want to focus on.

I thought I could block him in behind J.J., but knowing Tony, that might make him mad. I didn't want to mess with that. ... I actually got a little loose there and couldn't pick up the throttle as hard as I wanted.

I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.

I've been happy all year with the way things have gone. We've had momentum all year, even with last week. We had a car that was capable of probably running in the top three. Things like that happen, and it was nobody's fault, and it's been fixed since then.

It took us a little time we fell back early. We were working on getting the car driving a little better, but the tires fell off real quick. It was very easy to spin your tires.

We came so close to winning at Texas a couple of years ago. I won the Busch race last year, so we have the momentum on our side right now.

I definitely thought I had my hands full with those guys.