Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Harvick - Page 2

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

I like competition. For me, it is fun.

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.

I will not back down to anyone.

Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.

In my opinion, the most stagnant thing in our sport is our schedule and our venues that we go to.

I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.

We have to take the good with the bad.

A lot of the kids we have coming up through our ranks now have been in stock cars since they were 12 or 13 years old. It's much different. I think you have to pick a path. If you want to race open-wheel cars and do those things, it's probably going to be carts and into an open-wheel series.

We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.

If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.

I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

I always like my chances at Daytona.

I've been fortunate enough to have won a lot of races and do a lot of things in my career.

I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me.

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone.

Chase Elliott winning is better for our sport.

I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different.

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

That's your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There's a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.

Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up. They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon.

The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

The truck was really fast, we just couldn't get a long enough green flag run there toward the end to get a good run on Todd and Skinner. But we were fast. Randy Goss, David Dollar and everyone on the No. 47 team and at Morgan Dollar gave me an awesome truck to drive tonight. We ran out of time to get back up there and race them for win.

You can't take life for granted. I am lucky to have everything I've ever wanted. I've got a beautiful wife, a job I've always dreamed of...and my face on my own t-shirts.

Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

On any given day, I don't think there's anybody who can outdrive me. That's the mind set I have going into every race.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.

The room inside is definitely the biggest plus of the car. Your head is not anywhere near the (roll) bars, like it's sitting against the bars in the other (current) cars.

Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to come find him and he’s going to have to hold my watch because I’m going to whip his ass. He’s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody’s kind of written us off.

We just have to keep our heads down and keep doing everything that we've been doing. This isn't a bunch of guys that are just going to go out and brag We're going to race every week like we have never won a race before. That's the kind of determination that you need when you are going to do this stuff.

I think racing in Mexico will prove to be a great move for our sport in the future. The reaction we received from the fans last year was outstanding. The fans were unbelievable, and I expect the same reaction this year.

Just a huge credit goes to the GM Goodwrench team and all my teammates that went before me. It's been a good weekend for us so far and hopefully we can put it all together tomorrow night.

Anybody who says I can't do something, it just motivates me more than you could believe.

Winning cures all problems.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

We've got a third, first and a pole; I don't think you could ask for much more than that. Hopefully we can finish it off [tonight].

I'm gonna have nightmares about kids eating free.

You have to have something to lean on when you have more than one team. I don't really agree with making the move four weeks before the Chase. That's not how I would have done it.