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" A lot of the kids we have coming up through our ranks now have been in stock cars since they were 12 or 13 years old. It's much different. I think you have to pick a path. If you want to race open-wheel cars and do those things, it's probably going to be carts and into an open-wheel series. "
Now
You
Want
" Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn. "
Focus
Learning
Rest
" Chase Elliott winning is better for our sport. "
Our
Sport
Winning
" Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal. "
Someone
Start
Father
" Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things. "
People
Event
Good
" Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions. "
Decisions
Race
Win
" For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that. "
Reach
Me
Growth
" For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times. "
I Am
Car
Better
" How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event. "
Everybody
Bowl
Because
" I always like my chances at Daytona. "
Chances
Like
Daytona
" I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be. "
Involved
Healthy
More
" I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard. "
Practice
Know
Doing
" I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years. "
Through
Know
Few
" I feel like there's value in experience. "
I Feel
Experience
Value
" If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do. "
Point
You
Team
" If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps. "
Five
Chance
Better
" If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else. "
Like
Follow
Everyone
" If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time. "
Time
Good
Events
" I grew up in a little bit of a broken home. "
Up
Little Bit
Little
" I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school. "
Go
Back
Always
" I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change. "
Enough
Go
Know
" I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front. "
Car
Window
Time
" I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different. "
You
Drive
Driven
" I just try to be myself. But I will tell you this: I will not back down to anyone. "
Try
You
Tell
" I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr. "
People
Conclusions
Own
" I like competition. For me, it is fun. "
Fun
Like
Me
" I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing. "
Golf
Baseball
Football
" I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me. "
Future
Like
Challenges
" I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important. "
People
Deep
Calm
" I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence. "
Think
Silence
Quiet
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