His birthday is something I do enjoy pointing out or celebrating or recognizing myself personally, because that was always a lot of fun with him.

I was trying my hardest to follow all the rules.

Working with Tony Jr.’s going to be a lot of run. We’ve already tested with each other, and we’ve got a good mentality … This is a new start. We’ve always been close, but the...

Target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes cares of itself. We just go out there and race as hard as we can, take the car we...

Denny did what he had to do. It looked like he’d been doing it for a while.

It’s been a long week. We’re just happy to come out of here (without wrecking). A lot of guys weren’t so fortunate. We’re happy with a top 10.

Obviously, you have days like this, but I don’t think we were doing anything out of the ordinary or out of our limitations. It’s just a surprise because we normally don’t have engine failures.

It drove great all day. We bounced off a lot of things, and it just continued to drive great.

I don’t really understand everything the foundation does. I know it plants a lot of trees. … The foundation is a good thing, if it?s run properly and has the right people running it.

I cried a little bit in the race car on the way to the checkered flag. Well, maybe not cried, but at least my eyes watered up.

The tires are wearing out pretty fast. Everybody has the same tires, so everybody is dealing with the same problem.

They can change the bumpers and stuff and we’ll still run into each other because that’s what we do.

The 48 (Johnson) ran into the 38 (Sadler) and I ran into them. That was an accident and accidents happen. We’re all together so it’s hard to miss something when you’re going so fast. You...

If you’re cheating, the less people know about it, the better. You’re not going to tell your driver. At least I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t tell anybody.

I considered it a pretty big accomplishment personally, because for me Bristol is probably the toughest track on the circuit.

I haven’t really been able to tell the difference between one and the other.

That was a fun race, man.

You get nervous when you see fluids. There wasn’t any fluids — just Busch trying to get out of the way.

I’ve raced harder this year than I’ve ever raced before. You think you’re doing all you can. I’ve always felt like I’ve given 100 percent, but you’re put in certain situations and you find you’re...

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.