A Quote by Rick Santorum

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get. — © Rick Santorum
NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.
If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.
I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.
The start of my rookie season when there was so much pressure, so many expectations, and so much excitement surrounding the return of the No. 3 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and then we went out and won the pole for the Daytona 500. That was a very special moment.
Nothing will ever feel like winning a Daytona 500. I'm never going to do anything in broadcasting, probably anything in any other professional job that will feel like winning the Daytona 500.
Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it's better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure - they've never won at Daytona.
I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
Well, my favorite memory of a president was in 1984. I was in the grandstands at Daytona, and maybe I was 20 years old. So just sort of down in Daytona, having a good time for the 500 - or for the 400 in July. And Air Force One lands on the back straightaway. It was President Reagan.
It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.
NASCAR racing is the highest form of American auto racing, and I've always wanted to be racing in the highest form. I want to accomplish good things in everything I get in every night, but NASCAR is the biggest, most-watched thing in American racing.
The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.
The Daytona 500 is always special.
There's only eight cars that make the Daytona 500.
I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn't need anything cheating on my part.
I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.
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