Quotes About Motivation

I'd like to have some good races and score points.

There have been many races in the past that I have won and not been happy, and other times when I finished maybe eighth but was really happy with my driving.

Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and that day, I knew I would.

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

Every driver wants to compete in races - that is what we are all driving for.

I've hit a couple barriers out there on the racetrack growing up. There's definitely been some flak in the way. I've been able to handle that the best I could, ignore it, use that as motivation.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

I always said when I was in Late Models, all I ever wanted was when I pull out on the racetrack, people feel like I'm the guy to beat.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

The fact that I'm racing, yes, is important, it's my passion, but, it's not my life, racing.

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.

Getting back racing gave me the extra motivation in other areas to get back walking in my day to day life and just spurred me on.

I want to be up front racing.

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

I'm so used to being in this racing world. This is what I want to do. I don't like doing anything else.

I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

My focus is definitely on the racing.

I always want to be racing.

It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.

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