Quotes About Daytona 500

#1. I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I think that really kind of motivated us.

Amber Cope

#2. I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

Dale Earnhardt

#3. Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago.

Kurt Busch

#4. I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

Ray Lewis

#5. There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

Jimmie Johnson

#6. It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.

Jay Leno

#7. The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Jimmie Johnson

#8. The start of my rookie season when there was so much pressure, so many expectations, and so much excitement surrounding the return of the No. 3 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and then we went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500. That was a very special moment.

Austin Dillon

#9. If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.

Ernie Irvan

#10. 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.

Tony Stewart

#11. I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver ... a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

Charlaine Harris

#12. When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

Jeff Gordon

#13. NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

Rick Santorum

#14. The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

Kurt Busch

#15. Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.

Amber Cope

#16. 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.

Tony Stewart

#17. It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joey Logano

#18. Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill.

Steve Miller

#19. I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

Dan Quayle

#20. My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

Danica Patrick

#21. Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why are they so distracted, so in love with the idea of more and more and then more, again?

Michael Cunningham

#22. Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#23. If the eternal Son could become fully human without sin (Heb 4:15), then surely God can communicate his truth through thoroughly human ambassadors while preserving their writings from error.

Michael S. Horton

#24. I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

Ahmed Zewail

#25. Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Stephen King

#26. Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ...

R.D. Blackmore

#27. I'm not a big scatology fan, unlike my sons, who can amuse themselves for an entire afternoon by repeating the phrase 'crocodile fart.' So I'll spare you from an overabundance of detail in this chapter. This chapter will be somewhat soft focus, like the TV camera in a Barbra Streisand interview.

A. J. Jacobs

#28. If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

Maria Augusta Von Trapp