Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Denny Hamlin - Page 2

I think there's always debris around the track, without a doubt you can call anything debris.

Anytime you are superspeedway racing, we're messing around with inches here and when you feel like it's your friend that wrecked you, you get a little bit more upset.

I've had shoulder issues.

I can pump myself and beat my chest all I want going into a racetrack, but when you haven't had success there, that means you don't know what feel you are looking for.

I remember feeling my back break and I really didn't know if I'd ever race again.

Anytime you slow the speeds down, racing will always be better.

I think that sometimes you just have off years. That's just part of major sports. You have off years, and it happens.

I'm just more the consistently top-five guy. That's pretty much been my M.O. for my whole career.

Distractions, for me, are a good thing, not a negative.

If anything during the playoffs, I try to golf more. I'll just do anything I can to be normal. I don't really designate any time differently or try to weed out distractions.

It's easy to be optimistic when your car is fast.

I'll take every win I can.

There's no doubt, doing what we do, the schedule that we have and the danger that we incur every single week, NASCAR drivers should be making NBA, NFL money.

It's interesting to see how guys who have been successful at the top level of their sport carry themselves.

The communication between the driver, the spotter and the crew chief is very key. You can't have people talking at the same time, so it's like a choreographed radio call of a baseball game.

It's something I've always done - speak my mind - and it's not always in my best interest to do that. But if someone asks me a question, I'm always going to give my 100 percent honest answer, and that's the best I can do.

When two teams skirmish with each other or the two drivers don't like talking to each other, all you do is go backward. There's no doubt about it.

There's no right way to do it or wrong way to do it - that's why so many drivers have been caught in wrecks at Talladega.

I'm better off when I take a little break from racing now and then.

I'm very confident I'll win my championship before my career is over.

You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can't.

If I'm going to win a championship, I need to run top-five every week. I don't need to win every week.

I like challenges, and Darlington is the biggest challenge on the circuit.

The research center at VCU has really done a great job of welcoming us in and we've contributed a lot of money to them because they do a lot of the research for cystic fibrosis.

Communication is key to having a good team.

I know that's what Goodyear wants and what NASCAR wants and what the drivers want as far as safety is concerned.

Luck is just a stupid word in racing.

I never would consider any comparison to Mark Martin an insult. I'll take those comparisons all day because the guy is a... driver that nobody wanted to face.

We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we're faced with adversity.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

As a Virginian, I am proud of Dominion and SunEnergy1 for bringing utility scale solar to the state.

There are people that live without ACLs all of the time and walk around and you never know the difference.

It doesn't hurt to have a little confidence in your team.

There's no way I could put on running shoes and go out for a 5-mile run, but put a ball in my hand and I'll go for days. Or until I break something.

I believe in the NASCAR medical staff.

I'll win the Coca-Cola 600 and the Brickyard.

I'd rather run good and finish bad then run bad and finish a little better, honestly.

When I feel comfortable in the car... I can do just about anything I need to do to be a race winner.

Championships, I get it, it's very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I'm one of the toughest competitors and toughest guys to beat. That's all I really care about, is having the respect of them.

We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks.

Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early.

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

There's no other place I'd rather have it than here in Mexico. It's a race track that I was looking forward to going to from the time we were here last year. This track just fits my driving style perfectly.

I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.

I can spend the hour before the race cracking up with all my friends and joking around, but as soon as I get around that race car, I completely change. The focus changes. The competitive juices get flowing.

It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.

It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.