Matt Kenseth Quotes (80 Quotes)


    The first thing that comes to mind when I think about returning to Talladega next weekend is that I hope I don't hit anything It's the same as always when we think about Talladega, but I think we've got better cars than we've ever had for our speedway pro

    Morton's Filet Diane features our classic filet mignon, great for every occasion, ... However, taking the time to prepare the signature demi-glace mustard sauce really adds a special touch to any outdoor barbeque.

    All the Roush cars are running well, and it's fun to be a part of that organization now.

    It was great to have dug our way out of the hole and made the chase. We got a lot momentum right now. All of the Roush cars are running really well right now. It's fun to be part of that team.

    It never hurts to get track time at the same track in basically the same car with regard to bodywork and chassis setup that you're going to run all week.


    I feel bad for Greg, it's hard to look at the good side if you are him. He's running so strong and there's no doubt he's going to be a contender at the end of the year.

    It was a great day for the guys, ... We kept making adjustments to the car and got good enough. Until two to go, I thought I was racing Carl for the win. It's great to be up front all day. The disappointing thing is I think we had the car to win. We're here to win and whenever you don't win, it's disappointing.

    I didn't have any reason to be mad at him. I just apologized. I messed up. I'd be mad if was him, too. So I hope everything is OK.

    He knocked me out of the way. I thought if he had a run on me, had me beat, that would have been OK. But he drove extra hard and knocked me out of the way. I thought it was a cheap shot.

    I was even with Earnhardt and everybody just piles in that line all the time.

    We have to have no mistake this weekend - not by the driver and not on pit road, ... It's going to be exciting. I know that.

    The most fun track we race on may be at Atlanta. You can run the white line or you can have the right rear scraping the fence and probably run the same lap times, so you never have an excuse for not passing a car in front of you. There are a lot of good grooves at Atlanta. It's a good race for the drivers and good fun for the fans.

    Our points system has never been about winning races. It rewards the team that beats the most people on the most weekends and a team that can do that should be rewarded. In my championship year 2003, I only won one race. I don't think people saw that as being wrong or terrible.

    Not really. Today I still have bad feelings. It would be hard for me not to.

    He Stewart is out here a week ago, making ridiculous statements, getting everyone all upset because he says we are going to kill someone. Then he comes out here and does that kind of stuff all day. Was it intentional It looked that way to me.

    We haven't run our 500 car in drafting practice yet. That's a hard question to answer. We don't really know yet until we get on the track with some other cars.

    Winning's hard. We were second to Tony at Indianapolis this year and we did everything possible to win. They could have made that race worth 10,000 points and we couldn't have tried any harder.

    You always hope it's over. I saw him Sunday night after the race. We talked about it a little bit. I don't blame him for being upset. I'd have been upset too.

    It feels great. I haven't been to victory lane in a long time (since March 2004). If there's two or three races you'd like to win, Indianapolis and the Bristol night race are the top two on my list.

    I heard about it this morning on the news. That's always tough, even if you don't know him or you don't know anything about that kind of racing or watch that kind of racing. It's still hard, especially with those cars. You always know the danger's there and things can go wrong.

    We had a flat tire and came back from that. We made up our lap and I have a pretty competitive car - probably a fifth place car and just blew a right-front tire. I felt it shaking a little bit for a lap or two and slowed way down. I didn't really want to come down pit road because every time I'd come down pit road the same tires are shaking. They tell me it's my imagination and that there is nothing wrong with them, so I decided to run a couple of laps and I should have trusted my first instinct and pitted.

    Well, he did what he had to do. Whatever Kurt feels good about tonight. I wouldn't have done that to him. I would have passed him the right way, or I wouldn't have passed him.

    Last year we made the top 10, I felt like in my heart that we weren't going to run for the championship anyway. I didn't think we were running good enough.

    If it would've been any other time in the race he would have gone right by me, but right there you've got to race all you can for that position. And the way the leaders were going at it, I thought it maybe could've been for the win, so ... I just told him I was waiting for him to turn me.

    That's hard to do -- to gain points and have a great day, that can happen. But to have five or six people have trouble and have a great day for several weeks in a row is a difficult task.

    He doesn't always do what's best for him. He always did the best for the organization on the racetrack. Three years ago, Mark (Martin) was running for a championship. Kurt was leading (at) Rockingham, and Mark was running second. Kurt pulled over so Mark could get the points for leading the most laps. Things like that, most people would never think of doing.

    Our Vegas test went good. It feels good to get off to a good start. Last year we didn't, but a couple of years before that we did and it certainly helped us both seasons. I think we won early in '03 and '04, so hopefully we can keep it up all the way through the year.

    I haven't been to this Victory Lane before, but I knew where it was because they showed me when I won the pole, so I knew where it was.

    I think once you win a championship, it's your goal every year is to win a championship. That's our goal. More than that, it's our goal to win every week. We haven't won that many races the last couple of years. We'd like to get to Victory Lane more often.

    The deal was my fault. I made a mistake and I should have known better (than to) go over there and try to apologize. He's mad. He's running third on the last lap and got taken out, so I would have been mad, too.

    I want him to make a decision. To be fair for the team, even though I am a huge Brett Favre fan, I think he should have made a decision before free agency was over and before the draft.

    It's a lot of fun racing IROC. The concept is pretty neat. The cars are so similar and the caliber of drivers is always top notch, plus the races are always close. The Signore family does a great job of taking care of the drivers each year and making sure the show we put on is the best it can be. I'm looking forward to it this year. Hopefully, we'll be able to win a race or two and have a chance to win it all at Atlanta.

    I don't want to say I don't care about the points lead because I do. I feel bad. I feel like I keep letting my guys down. They keep getting me the lead at the end and I lose it like I did in (Las) Vegas.

    I didn't do anything wrong. I thought I left him plenty of room. That's the same way he raced. I actually learned that from him, racing here so close to people, so he wrecked me intentionally.

    I feel bad for Greg. He had the best car today. But I feel like we had the second or third best car.

    It's really early in the year, but I think when you're leading the points or when you're solidly in the top 10, it definitely gives you a good feeling and it gives the guys a good feeling. There's a little bit more comfort, being in the top 26 races, being in the front.

    I think we understand each other better. Everything is going to be fine on the track. We passed each other two or three times and gave each other room just like we did every other race.

    They do hit each other pretty hard. It was just hard to pass, and to get anybody a big run outside you had to hit them pretty hard to give them a shot at getting some momentum.

    Tony took me out intentionally. There's no two ways about that. He was mad because earlier in the race when I passed him he got loose, which I didn't think I did anything wrong.

    Not until they tell me what I did. I put my hand up, asked him, 'Why did you do that' That's all I did. What did I do

    I thought we were out of it. There's still a couple of races to go, but we're a lot closer. We'll just go to California next week and give it all that we can. If we can run like this the last two races, we'll make it.

    Kenseth, the 2003 series champion, was happy just to get a crack at his second title. I'm relieved, but I'm more than relieved. I'm excited, ... We were way behind two months ago. We just kept digging and digging. I feel like we have some momentum.

    Okay, enough about me. You all thought getting shoved by Jeff Gordon at Bristol was controversial. That's peanuts compared to what went down in Texas.

    We led all day and thought we had the best car. My guys had great pit stops and got me out front. I did everything I could at the end. If I had driven any harder, we were going to wreck. I just got beat.

    To be truthful, Martinsville is a track I go to with some trepidation. We have historically struggled there. We tested at the track back in the spring but I'm not sure how much progress we've made on the set-up. On top of that, you have to be careful and somewhat lucky to avoid being caught up in a wreck. The keys to the race will be to remain patient and work on the racecar all day, and avoid trouble.

    We were a sitting duck. We knew we wanted to put four tires on the car because we ran so good all day, but we knew a bunch of them were going to take just two.

    The big bump-draft thing is more of an issue at Talladega than it is here, because you can run big and run into someone.

    We had a talk yesterday and I think we understand each other better after that. It's water under the bridge and a much better week for us.

    Tony took me out intentionally. He was mad because of earlier in the race. I didn't think I did anything wrong, left him plenty of room. I learned that from him. That's the way it is. I'm just really disappointed Tony said all that stuff earlier in the week. If he's worried about people's lives and everything, then he wrecks you on purpose at 190, I wasn't too happy with that.

    We find some time here and there to do some other things outside of racing, but it (racing's demands) definitely keeps you busy. I don't get a chance to go up there (Wisconsin) very often (during the 10-month Nextel Cup season), so that will be a fun time this summer.


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