Tony Stewart Quotes

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

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

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

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

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.

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 broke my leg is all I did. I didnt break my brain.

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.