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“I'm going to say this because I know my fans like my brutal honesty. Every year, all the competitors go out to the bar and try to get me drunk so I can't run the next day. It didn't work this time.”
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“I'm dying right now, ... Too tired to chase fences right now. Give me five minutes and I'll be ready.”
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“for a fat kid like me, it felt like Mount Everest.”
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“I'm too lazy to work my real job. I love what I do. I've been doing it for 26 years.”
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“I'm sleeping with that trophy tonight,”
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“I'm serious as a heart attack. I'll wake up, I may have stab marks in my back from the edges, but I'm sleeping with it tonight. I'm scared somebody will get in my room and get it. That's how serious I am about it. I mean, it means that much to me.”
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“I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.”
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“Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.”
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“Who cares? All I want to do is just go home. ... I don't care about anything else right now.”
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“When you get through a day like this, you're happy it's over because your brain has had all it can stand for one day of this,”
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“All we could control ... was our emotions,”
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“When I'm not dragging the team down, I think it helps all of us, ... When the one person who is dragging everybody back gets on the same page and does his part, it makes a huge difference.”
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“The thing that has amazed me is that most of the questions I'm answering today are all theoretical. Well, I'm not a philosopher.”
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“I need a renewal of my life insurance policy, to tell you the truth. I just can't wait for this thing to be over so I can get out of here and hopefully not be hurt.”
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“Welcome to the wonderful world of racing here. It was just a bad set of circumstances.”
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“In this series, nothing surprises me anymore,”
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“Everybody knows who had the best car here today, ... There wasn't anybody who was going to beat us. Jeff Gordon got the trophy, but he wasn't going to beat us. We had the best car. All you have to do is get the lap times. They could run with us for 15 or 18 laps, but we always drove away. That's the positive thing that we ought to take away from today.”
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“I'm sorry guys, but that was something that absolutely had to be done. Some things are acceptable, and some things are not. Their performance tonight was not . I know it's late, and I apologize, but they way they ran was just ridiculous.”
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“They name streets after guys like that - `One Way,' and `Dead End,' ... He's a nice guy, I like him and I play poker with him. But if he came over here right now I'm afraid I'd have to strangle him.”
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“When you got a guy with the things like Chad was saying on the radio, it's like being inside a kindergarten room listening to it,”
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“I hate to say I'm growing up because it scares me to think I might be but maybe I'm starting to realize there are more things to life than driving a race car.”
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“Being the favorite doesn't mean a darn thing to me, to be honest, as far as winning the points, ... I've led points championships before. The day I want to be leading is the Sunday at Homestead.”
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“I've just been a regular media darling this week, ... I know you've got a job to do. I promise to do a better job dealing with you guys next year.”
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“[But Stewart also seemingly has gotten a handle on his emotions. He even went so far Friday night as to pull out a piece of paper wrapped in a red ribbon.] Mike [ Helton ] said I had to show him I had my anger management certificate, to prove I finished the course, ... This is it.”
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“To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport,”
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“It doesn't mean he's not a good driver. He hasn't forgotten how to drive a race car.”
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“We were trading cooking secrets, ... What did you do to our car? What's your problem?”
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“Talk to your driver, Chad, ... He knocked me all over the track.”
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“It was done with the intent of intimidating us. But there are some guys you can intimidate and some guys where it works the opposite way,”
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“I've been doing this for 26 years and I've played mind games with people and I've had people play mind games with me,”
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“I don't think Chad thought deep enough into it to realize that you don't want to do that with us because you're picking on the wrong guy there because we pick back. I think he'll be a little less vocal these next few weeks.”
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“He didn't mean to do it. I said, 'At least you're man enough.' Fifty percent of the guys will wait for the phone call the next day. That's why I respect Mark Martin more than anybody.”
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“He's an idiot. They name streets after people like that - one-way and dead-end. I like the guy, we play poker together but if I found him right now, I'd strangle him.”
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“They've never given up on me, ... We didn't want to win it like we did in 2002. We won it right this time.”
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“My heart doesn't need anymore of that,”
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“It's nice that they don't have to talk about my behavior anymore, ... That's the biggest honor you can have, for the guys you race with to give you that kind of compliment.”
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“I put the team through a lot of hell ever since I've been with them but they never gave up on me, ... Zippy didn't want to win it the way we did in 2002. It was nice to do it and do it right.”
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“You're darn right you're picking up the tab!”
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“Any time a great driver like that or a great group of drivers speak highly of you like that, that's probably the greatest honor in auto racing you can have. To hear those comments, that's better than any trophy I've ever received in my life.”
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“Even when we weren't running good, we were having fun,”