"Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of."
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"Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are."
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"We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards."
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"I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else."
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"I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me."
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"Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta."
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"My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year."
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"I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about."
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"I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent."
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"I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work."
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"I guess I'd rather be lucky than good."
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"I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today."
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"Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do."
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"Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money."
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"Kill one and you might as well kill 21."
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"Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity."
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"I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live."
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"Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example."
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"I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher."
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