Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Harvick

They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

These regional series - we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.

The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

I've been very fortunate to be part of the sport and be successful.

Winning makes everything better.

I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.

I want to thank everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, everybody at Ford for just continuing to put the effort they put into these cars.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.

If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.

When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.

I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.

There's a difference between a superstar and a megastar.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

We don't ever want to lose a deal. So we treat a $5,000 sponsor like a $5 million sponsor, both because it's the right thing to do and because we've grown a lot of our sponsors from thousands to millions.

I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he's won seven championships.

One thing I can't stand is when people - not our team, but other people - don't respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text... using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

I feel like there's value in experience.

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

The officials in the garage do a great job.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

When we're outside of the racetrack and in our team meetings, you need to communicate with your teammates and do what's best for the company in order to give the people that work there the best opportunity to succeed and maximize the potential of their job.

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.

The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.

You always want to win.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions.

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.

My favorite part of any military feature, aside from the people themselves, is how clean and organized everything is. I like things clean and organized, and they don't get any cleaner or more organized than they are in any branch of the military.

I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be.

There were some struggles throughout the year at RCR. In order to keep yourself relevant, you had to find a headline. In order to find a headline, you had to do something that wasn't right, like jump over a car or say something you shouldn't.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

There's no bigger thrill than beating the guy you're not supposed to beat or winning a race you're not supposed to win.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

The day that Chase Elliott wins his first race is gonna be one of the best moments in NASCAR racing because of the fact of how impactful it will be for all of us in NASCAR racing.

I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

We get paid a lot of money to do what we do, and there's a lot of people who are dependent upon that car running well and us getting everything out of it as a team. So I'm very, very loyal to my team and the company.

Racing's my life.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

Life is an evolution.

I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.

For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that.

I'm more comfortable inside the car than I am anywhere else.

We have a great group of people and sponsors around us, and you don't want to send them out as outcasts because you have this newfound success and this new tool of things you can sell.

It's always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.