Tony Stewart Quotations | Page 2

You're darn right you're picking up the tab!

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 is one of those days, I don't want it to end, ... I don't want to see the sun set. It's definitely the greatest day of my life, professionally and personally up to this point.

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.

It was fun racing like that. Obviously, if there had been 80 laps to go, neither one of us would have been racing each other that way. Definitely, he was better. We weren't. We were extremely loose there at the end.

It was fun racing like that. If there'd been 80 laps to go, neither one of us would have raced each other that hard. But with 30 laps to go, you're going to race each other that hard for sure, knowing you're getting down to the end.

It was fun racing him like that. Obviously if it had been 80 laps to go, neither of us would have raced each other that hard. ...Definitely, he was better.

It was done with the intent of intimidating us. But there are some guys you can intimidate and some guys where it works the opposite way,

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.

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

I told Zippy, 'If you sell this car to Bob, I'm going to kick you ... .'

For a kid like him to put himself even into that position was pretty remarkable.

for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.

It's the same thing Jeff did to me at Bristol in 2000.

It's one of those screwed-up nights that's probably going to dictate how the Chase comes out, ... I should be leaving here with a 100-point lead, but here I am in a tie.

It's probably the hardest top-10 finish we've ever run here, but we did exactly what we needed to do tonight with the circumstances that we had. It finished out just fine.

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

That's still better than third, so there's 41 guys that wish they ran as good as I did. As volatile as this place can be ... to be able to get to second is something I feel we can be proud of.

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.

It's such a chess match. You can be leading the race one second, and you can be fifth the next second. I think it's just a matter of timing and getting yourself in the right place at the right time.

Everybody knows who had the best car here today, ... There wasn't anybody who was going to beat us. Jeff Gordon got the trophy, but he wasn't going to beat us. We had the best car. All you have to do is get the lap times. They could run with us for 15 or 18 laps, but we always drove away. That's the positive thing that we ought to take away from today.

Talk to your driver, Chad, ... He knocked me all over the track.

It's disheartening a little bit to know you can't make the difference, but it definitely teaches you a team atmosphere. It teaches you what football teams and basketball and baseball teams know -- that you're one of many components that make a team.

It was a good lap. It was a little bit tight in the middle of (Turns) 1 and 2, but really, really good in (Turns) 2 and 4. So I'm pretty happy with it.

I've just been a regular media darling this week, ... I know you've got a job to do. I promise to do a better job dealing with you guys next year.

It was a good race, ... That's awesome short track racing right there. They (the fans) got their money's worth today. That's the way the race to the Chase should start, just like that. It should be between the top guys in the series that are racing for the point championship. Ryan did an awesome job and we just couldn't hold him off there at the end.

It was a big enough deal where I felt like I had to say something. The lowest guy in points in this series, if he doesn't like something, he should feel like he's responsible to go in there and tell them about it, too. Your feelings aren't ranked by points standings and your common sense shouldn't be dictated by that.

They were playing the game; I was playing the game as the leader, ... They're doing what they have to do. I did the same.

They were playing the game, and I was playing the game as the leader. I was hoping I didn't have to do that stuff.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I kept telling them just to be patient and keep working on it. If you'd have seen the changes we made, you'd have been scared to drive this thing.

I'm thoroughly convinced that the man laying on the slab in the Chicago morgue was John Dillinger.

I knew we were a little quicker than him. There was no way he was going to give it away, so we were going to have to take it away. We didn't turn him around. We didn't spin him out. We just got the position that we were after.

I'm sorry guys, but that was something that absolutely had to be done. Some things are acceptable, and some things are not. Their performance tonight was not . I know it's late, and I apologize, but they way they ran was just ridiculous.

I had to push so hard to get by Kyle. We just got tight behind him and brushed the wall.

I guess he forgot what we talked about already.

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

I needed a good driver for the midget team, but since I'm not able to go to all of the USAC races anymore, I did what a lot of the car owners in the Cup and Busch Series do, and that's pick up National Speed Sport News every week,

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.

I'll be honest. I've had zones . . . when I was in Midgets and Sprint Cars where I could go week-in and week-out and not fall out of the top three. But to win five out of the last seven and be in the top seven for the last eight weeks is a pretty good record.

I'm convinced I'm still going to fall off one and crack my head wide open.

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

Being in a group of only 14 guys that have won multiple championships here, that's probably going to mean more than winning the championship by itself,

Hey, you've got to remember that I just drive. I get in the car and I drive. It's been literally that simple.

He's an idiot. They name streets after people like that - one-way and dead-end. I like the guy, we play poker together but if I found him right now, I'd strangle him.

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.

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.

I don't want to see it end, ... I don't want to see the sun set.

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.

This is one of those situations where I felt like I needed to at least say something. If I didn't say something and something else happened, I felt like I didn't do my part as a driver.

You don't have the luxury of sitting down and taking the time to analyze the situation, ... You've got to make a split-second decision.

All we could control ... was our emotions,

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.

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

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.

I think when you look at our team, you have to say that the weak point is probably still the driver.

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.

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

I've had times where I walked up to the line, where I know the play, but don't know what to do.

Daytona is a restrictor-plate race and, unlike Daytona, guys can't get in a line at Phoenix and go to the front. Daytona and Talladega (Ala.) have always just been two different forms of racing. With the draft being so important at those two tracks, it's more of a team deal than an individual deal. What happens at Phoenix and the races after that has to be done on your own. You can't help each other at Phoenix. You just have to go race.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails....

I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do...

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.