22 Quotes by Brian Vickers

I wish I'd pulled harder to the bottom to block Jimmie, but we might have wrecked too. We missed the big wrecks, and we blocked when we could, and it was a race to the finish. At this speedway ... you've got a 50-50 shot - block high or block low - when they're coming at you.

The 5 and 25 teams have been hitting on all eight cylinders since July. I knew it was only a matter of time until one of the teams went to Victory Lane. I try not to think too much about getting that first win. We'll continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.

We ended up getting in front of the 24, but I saw he had a run on us. I blocked him and it took the momentum off him, but the 48 (Johnson) took advantage of that to get past him and then he got past me. Jimmie got low on me and I should have gone harder to block him, but then again, we all might have wrecked.

Those guys still respect him out there, and they're still pushing him to wins.

Even though testing at Daytona can be boring at times, I really wanted to be there. I got a clean bill of health from my doctor just this morning, so I'm ready to go.

Even though (McGrew) and I have worked together in the past, a lot of guys on the team were new, some were even new to Hendrick Motorsports. It was a learning process for all of us.

At the beginning of the season, a lot of people were expecting success right out of the box, but even we knew that was not going to happen.

There's a lot of difference in the two tracks. About the only thing they have in common is the half-mile part, and there's some difference there.

It's easy for me to sit here and say, 'Hey, this would have been my first win, Jimmie, why did you try to pass me?' Well, this was a win for him, too. I can't hold a grudge against him for that. If he wouldn't have tried to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don't know if I would have respected that.