Tony Stewart Quotes

#1. 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 ...

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#2. I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.

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#3. I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we're always competitive in it. That's something I've taken a lot of pride in my whole life.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.

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

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#8. The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

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#9. It's like, what if you get a set of tires that aren't balanced right or a driveshaft that's vibrating. That could create a problem. You try to think of every possible scenario of what can make you uncomfortable and try to come up with a solution for it.

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#10. DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

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#11. I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

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

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#13. All my life I've been that way - ever since I was a kid. It doesn't matter whether we played video games or even before that when we had board games when you played with your sister and mom and dad - I didn't like losing then and didn't want to do anything but win when we played.

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#14. I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.

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#15. I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

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#16. I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

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#17. There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.

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

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#19. Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

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#20. At the age of 41, I'm glad I still have hair.

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

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#22. 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.

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

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. I've got more stuff asked of me every week. But I drive a race car for a living. My car owner lets me race as many sprint car races as I want to run.

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#27. It's no different than anything else in anybody else's life. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. There are days you hate it and days you love it.

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#28. 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.

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#29. It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

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

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#31. I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.

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#32. If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to make it right, then I pretty much will let that go. You don't forget about it, but just seeing that the guy makes an effort the next week means a lot.

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#33. 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.

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

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

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#38. For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

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

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