Quotes by Kurt Busch

“[(AP) - In 2001, when Kyle Busch was 16 and a high school junior, older brother Kurt sounded a warning to NASCAR competitors.] You think Im a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother, ... Hes the best driver in the family.”

“The coolest thing is when you come to a race ... when you come and see it live and youre there and you get the sound and you get the feel and then the smell,”

“Thats what makes our sport so unique. You can sit there and watch it on TV, and you get more of the perspective of the pit strategy and the way the guys are passing each other out on the track. Then when you come to the race, you lose a little bit of that, but you can still see live whats going on, and you can get a scanner and hear the teams and what transmissions go back and forth. And you have the smell, youve got the sight, the feel. When cars come by at 200 miles an hour, it blows you away.”

“It feels like weve had about anything that can go wrong happen at Richmond,”

“Last year in the spring it was an alternator belt that broke when we were leading that took us out of contention, and then in the fall last year we were leading at the end before fuel strategy cost us the win. But Richmond is a terrific racetrack.”

“It was like the ghost of racing past. I knew it was going to come down to that. ... I cant believe I lost, but Mark is the guy to beat when youre racing IROC.”

“This was a great momentum-builder, ... Look out, Kurt Busch is running again. This just propels you right into the Chase.”

“Its something Ill remember forever, racing Mark Martin for the IROC win. It was one of those great battles, where I knew if I couldnt hit him, knew I couldnt touch him, and I wanted to race him clean.”

“This is something weve been looking forward to for many races -- Richmond. We wanted to get a good finish because it has bit us so many times.”

“Its great to be able to finish off the regular season on a strong note and jump into the Chase race with a very similar track in New Hampshire.”

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.