Top 55 Denny Hamlin Quotes

I think that it’s a benefit to have distractions because you don’t overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

I’ve had shoulder issues.

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.

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.

It’s hard to find the motivation to perform at 100 percent when you’re trying to find yourself, trying to figure out what feel you need, really when you feel like you’re not racing for anything.

I believe in the NASCAR medical staff.

These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience.

I was 16. I wrecked my truck and the only way I could pay to fix it was to get a job. So I applied at a Subway.

I almost always remember a picture I took with someone. If they said, ‘Hey, here’s a picture of us from five years ago,’ and if I look at the picture, I almost always remember that specific time.

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

Something about my personality fans just have not latched onto and probably never will.

For a season, I would say driver is 40%, car/team is 40% and then 20% is luck when it comes to winning a championship.

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.

I’m the most underrated driver.

Listen… it’s one versus 38. You win 10% of the time, you’re a Hall of Famer.

I always have to work on my flexibility to help my back, and Pilates helps the most.

If you had 25 races or 20 races, something like that, there’d be more of a demand for the race ticket. I think you’d probably see better racing because of it, too, honestly. Because the less chances we have to get wins, the more aggressive we’re going to be.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

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

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

Richmond is just the ideal racetrack.

We try to do our best to give honest answers and sometimes those aren’t always the best thing.

I’d say I’m moody, I’d say I’m temperamental. But within my certain group of friends and family, I’m very open and outgoing and joke around a lot.

I think I’m just quiet, and I don’t talk a whole lot.

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

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.

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

We’re way underpaid as race car drivers.

Back when I was racing go-karts, I would be a complete jokester. I’d crack up with the guys around me, I just was horsing around with everyone. But as soon as we got our go-karts to the grid and I put on my helmet, my daddy always used tell me, ‘You turn into a completely different person.’

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.

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

I just hear Montreal is nice, especially during the summer months. It’s supposed to be a clean city. The races I’ve watched up there, it always looked like a good time.

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

If you’re relying on winning for happiness, you’re going to be a miserable individual.

I think the reason I was successful in my rookie season is because I was having a lot of fun.

I’ve never been one of the top five or six most popular guys ever. I think the most popular I’ve ever been was probably my first two years in the Cup Series, and that’s probably because they just – ‘It’s the new guy and he’s successful and sure, we like him.’

Each driver has some particular style, and you compete against each driver in each race a little bit differently.

I nearly slept through my entire senior year. I’m fairly convinced they just gave me a diploma just to get me out of school.

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.

Gosh, I’m so different from what I used to be.

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’m different than the normal NASCAR driver, I listen to hip-hop music.

I’ve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for Tweets and whatnot. I express my opinion.

Luck is just a stupid word in racing.

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

I’ve taken quite a few risks on the ski slopes. Like if I’m a green-level skier, I’m going on the blacks just because it’s hard and a challenge. That’s probably not the best idea.

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

Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.

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

I’m a competitor.

The Daytona 500 is always special.

Mistakes happen in racing.

You’re a competitor, you want to win. Especially when you have a great opportunity to win.

There are a lot of people making money in NASCAR, so let’s help it be SAFER barriers where they should be – especially at these very very fast racetracks.