54 Quotes by Darrell Waltrip

Just being out here and hanging out and working has been good. I hate starting that far back, but if the tires don't fall off, we'll be OK.

Physically, I have been working out since July -- really, really hard wanting to be sure that I was physically prepared for this race,

We can't change the past. Those tracks have always been there and those races have always been there. What NASCAR has to look at is the future -- and this place is the future.

When you're that many points behind and they wipe the slate clean, that's what I don't like.

We could have had media day in a pup tent. You came down here to race and you went in the garage and worked on your car. They tried to hype it up and add TV. There wasn't the intensity that you have in the sport now. People are getting pulled in so many different directions; it's hard to have fun.

Understand that the sponsors are the people that are making this sport happen. It's not the purses; it's the sponsors. The sponsors want to be in Texas, they want to be in California, they want to be in Las Vegas.

I just lost my lunch and I didn’t even have any!

Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.

NASCAR logic isn't always logical.