We need to be better, but we definitely made some improvements from how it was here over the past couple of years.

That is what they pay us the big money for.

It’s kind of like heat racing. Gives you an idea about your competition going into the 500. I think anytime you line us up, we’re going to go for it. I think the qualifying deal,...

I hope that it does great things. I think it will be a lot of fun doing it with the people that I have if we can succeed.

I thought I lost the brakes altogether, so I took it to pit road. It never fully went away, but it obviously wasn’t as bad as I thought. It’s just frustrating. The only thing that...

Working with Tony Jr. is going to be a lot of fun, there’s a good, close bond there.

I think it is awesome – I think it is good for our sport. It is really entertaining for the fans and it is really entertaining for the other drivers. I hope it keeps going.

I don’t think that means anything. I still think we’ve got the car to beat out there.

It has always had a nice kind of grip, which makes it easier for rookie drivers to come in and get comfortable, but the setup is still hard to find. I think when you win...

We didn’t run as good as we wanted to in the test at Vegas, so I’m a little concerned there.

(It) don’t seem like five years. You know, it’s good that he’s still on people’s minds, people still miss him.

Guys get caught cheating all the time. Cheating is nothing new in the garage.

The track was a lot faster and it had a lot more grip. I like it, it was real smooth and they did a great job.

Tony and I are a good combination. And we’re going to try to work toward next year. These next nine races are real important and we’re going to try to build on that.

I think everybody saw it coming, and I’m glad he’s back. Last weekend was a good start for us. I was real proud of my team. People assumed that we’d just go through the motions...

We bounced off a lot of things and it just continued to drive great. The wheels were still straight, and everything was still going in the right direction.

I’m pretty disappointed I didn’t make the Chase, but you know, we gotta look forward to what we can do these next 10 races, to make next year a better year. (We’ll) just try to...

I look for hot chicks in tube tops. You know, you people-watch a lot. You talk to your crew to look busy. You look at people’s cars.

I felt like we had a top-15 car all day but we were right outside of that all day, down on horsepower a little bit which was really evident this weekend. So we need to...

I miss him a lot. And the sport misses him a lot.

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don’t win the championship, it won’t be by much.

That’s life. You’ve got to deal with it, good and bad. We’ll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don’t, we don’t.

We passed the second-place car, and then ran away from him [late in the race]. So if you paid real close attention to what happened today — well, I don’t know if I can explain...

If Tony Jr. and I are going to work together next year, that’d be a good idea to begin work on that relationship.

We beat on it pretty hard, but we kept coming back. ‘¦My crew, to be able to cut everything off and get me back on the race track without losing a lap, it was a...

I think we’re all right. I think we’re going to start third and fifth. I don’t know; the 38’s on the pole, right?

The thing about Bristol is you can be really good but still caught up in a wreck. That’s probably the main concern. Even if you’re the leader, it’s hard to miss wrecks sometimes because of...

He just needs to realize that he’s right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn’t want to tick off. I think he’ll figure it out.

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your success, and last year I learned a lot. That was an unfortunate season but maybe I needed to experience it to get back mentally...

It takes a lot away from the credibility of the sport if you’re giving somebody a helping hand to make it more exciting. I just don’t feel like it’s fair to those drivers. I don’t...

I want to run in the top five and lead some laps.

I’m not going to tell you, but I think everybody knows where we are headed and what we are going to do. I think it should get us back in Victory Lane a lot more...

He pulled the ‘Dale Earnhardt’ card on us, said we should have been there. But they were the same people who told us we didn’t have to go.

I thought we were going to pull through and get one at Atlanta, one of the better tracks for me. But we do run good every time we come here. Some guys have this place...

I’m just going to keep driving and have a good time doing it.

I’ve always been a big fan of Car and Track. Bud Lindemann had the vision to bring auto racing to television over 30 years ago. I watched every episode as a kid and still watch...

I’m excited to be here and really impressed with the professionalism and attention to detail the Navy demonstrates.

This was a good start for our team.

I think what Chad did is nothing new in the garage.

I’m hungry, our whole team’s hungry. I want to get off to a fast start and prove to the fans and everybody that this team’s strong.

I’m really disappointed running like this. I’m surprised it’s been this way most of the year, but now we have to go out and try to win races. We quit worrying about points a long...

I think we’re going to come into the Chase being top three in the points. We’ll have six or seven wins this season, if not more.

As a driver, I get called overrated all the time. So it is just good to get out there, put on a good race, get a good finish, and have good runs to remind people...

I’m surprised. I bet you all are surprised. That’s the way it goes.

Because I am sure NASCAR is going to ask the drivers to make a few appearances.

The only thing that sucks worse than a bad finish is a bad finish with a fast racecar.

Listeners to my new show on XM will get a real sense of who I am both on and off the track. Thanks to XM, I’ll have a national weekly radio show that allows me...

We fought a push all day. Even on that last lap, I went to the outside of the 38 (Elliott Sadler), got a real big push and had to back up.

In a situation like that … no matter how great a relationship he has with a driver, the less people that know about it, the better.

We’re making some great ground on these tracks. This is the best opportunity I’ve had as a driver and the team is really capable from top to bottom.