Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bubba Wallace - Page 2

It's something we're trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we're trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I'll take responsibility for.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

I've done the Stratosphere stuff in Vegas, but I haven't skydived or anything like that.

We were fortunate enough to have our own business to keep us moving up through the ranks - go-karts, Bandoleros, Legend cars, Late Models. That's where we stalled out, but luckily we caught a break with Joe Gibbs Racing and the diversity program.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

Our voices carry so much more weight than Joe Schmo from down the street.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

From what I've learned I need to do, is let everything else go and focus on finishing the race and having fun.

That's a goal of mine and the sport. To become more diverse and change the demographic, bring in a new face.

It's short-track racing. You're going to get that and it's going to happen. I don't know why everybody thought it was the end of the world when wrecks were going to happen. Like I said, with close-quarter racing like that it's going to get heated.

It takes a lot to get me really excited.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what other people think. You're out there running your own race and you want to run everybody as clean as possible.

This sport is changing.

Systemic racism is a problem from every aspect of life.

I've always tried to bring in the competitive nature: 'Don't mess with me, I won't mess with you.' Let's race our hearts out.

The people that don't want change, the ones that don't see how removing Confederate flag creates so much more opportunities for our sport to grow - they don't want our sport to grow.

Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.

Our sport has always had somewhat of a racist label to it.

I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out.

I have all of my firesuits and helmets, and my parents collect all the newspaper articles and pictures and stuff like that.

I'm just a race car driver.

You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I'm representing that culture and that background. But a lot of background pressure, I don't really put that on me. I know I have enough pressure to go out and perform every week.

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

We have that platform to tell something and that voice to tell people we have got to stop and change our ways. That's just how I think about it.

There's no need for me to go out there and try to set the world on fire, try to win races and put myself in a tough spot, not be able to capitalize on it. If the opportunity presents itself, yeah, we'll jump on it. There's no need for me to force a hole, end up tearing up a racecar.

I've hit a couple barriers out there on the racetrack growing up. There's definitely been some flak in the way. I've been able to handle that the best I could, ignore it, use that as motivation.

From Richard Petty to Andy Murstein, everybody at RPM is standing behind me and believing in me on track and also following me through this journey off track and letting me find my way and find my voice in standing up for what's right.

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race.

I've seen too many comments, too many stories from a fan, or first-time fans that have come to a race in years past and the first thing they say is, 'I seen the Confederate flag flying, it made me feel uncomfortable.'

I don't really watch much TV. I'm usually into movies.

People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

This is a team sport.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I'll go out there and prove to everybody that I belong to the Cup Series.

I need to go out there and run my own race, and have fun with it.

I try to represent myself and my team the best that I can.

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?