Kyle Busch
My fans are great and amazing, but there's no way all of my fans are going to be able to fill up Bristol Motor Speedway.Collection: Amazing
We have fans who bake cookies for the team or they make cupcakes or muffins and stuff like that. And then they always ask us if we enjoyed it and how it tasted. I'm like, 'That was so long ago. I don't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning!'Collection: Morning
Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
When I jumped ship from Roush Racing to Hendrick Motorsports, I couldn't believe the amount of personnel here that get along with each other. It's pretty amazing that there are so many people under one roof, where Roush is more spread out and it feels so different.
I don't know that many guys have ever been able to accomplish being able to win at every single active track that they've made starts at, and I look forward to trying to complete that feat.
I love winning, and I hate losing.
I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.
My dream car is a Saleen S7. It's made by Saleen in California; it's basically America's Ferrari.
My first paycheck came from HobbyTown USA in Las Vegas. They had like planes and trains and RC cars, things like that.
Toyota is competitive in anything they do.
You've got to be able to take the highs and the lows, and certainly I am not very good at taking the lows. I'll be the first to admit it. But when the highs come your way you've got to treasure them because you never know how many more you'll get.
You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'
Ray Evernham and Jeff Gordon and people in the garage area always put so much stake into me.
We're at the top echelon of motorsports, and we've got guys who have never won Late Model races running on the racetrack. It's pathetic. They don't know where to go.
For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn't as much media or there wasn't as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.
I love racing and I've always enjoyed racing. I love to try and go back to the local short tracks and do those races. And sometimes I do.
I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.
I like running my Super Late Models here and there and there are times when you go to those events and they are for $2,000 or $3,000 to win. There's no money involved in that; you're basically spending your money to go racing in those things but it's so enjoyable. For me, it's kind of like a golf game.
Certainly, different people show their emotions in different ways. Unfortunately for me, mine has never been very gracious and I don't know that it ever will be.
Those people that are close to me understand me and know me and know who I am outside the race track as a person and a friend, and that's why I'm able to continue to have the relationships and the sponsorships that I do.
You pretty much know as a driver what too fast is.
I don't necessarily ever put a number on how many we can win in a season.
Even though Richmond is a three-quarter mile, it's a fast short track... So it gives you - maybe you could call it a false of security a little bit, but it seems to be working for me.
I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.
I think my reputation is pretty fair among the drivers. The drivers know what they get when they see me or talk to me - if they get the chance to talk to me, because some of them I just don't talk to because I don't like them, so they should know.
As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.
I think I could make a 1,000 mile race. But I would definitely have to take pre-race precautions to make sure I could make it that far.
I'm a big Eminem fan, so I like listening to him. My wife doesn't, though.
Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.
I try to keep at least one or two of my firesuit designs every year.
I remember most all of my devoted fans, the ones who have been fans for a long time.
Some people tell you, 'I'm your good luck charm - I've been to eight races in my life and you've won six of them' or something like that. So it's kind of like, 'Well, you need to come to more then!' Other times, fans just want to talk about previous times they've met you.
I hear a lot of people who say they enjoy watching the road course races over the ovals.
I like road-course racing.
On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!
Racing is work, so that's not a hobby.
I'd say the late 70s were probably pretty cool. Obviously the cars weren't safe and the tracks weren't safe and all that stuff, but I think back then it was more about the driver.
When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.
I'd take winning the championship over winning a Chase race any day of the week.
You can be as good as you can be behind the wheel physically, but you've also got to be there mentally.
We put fate in other people's hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn't work out for you.
I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.
I would say people are most going to remember me for my skill on the racetrack, first and foremost.
I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.
My favorite was Jeff Gordon. I just followed him growing up because I started watching racing when he came on the scene.
There's no better benefit than being out on the racetrack, learning what's going on with the track and the tire and all that stuff. To me, that's a big influence.
Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.
I've never been very good at slowing down.
For me, I love football.
I don't watch much golf.