Bubba Wallace Quotes

Bubba Wallace

Profession : Driver

Birth : October 8, 1993

We've all got to make sure we're all pulling in the same direction. That's what's going to keep us ahead of the ball. As soon as we start getting in the opposite direction, that's when we start getting behind, and the results will start to show.

Bubba Wallace

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

Bubba Wallace

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.

Bubba Wallace

This sport is changing.

Bubba Wallace

Creating unity and compassion and understanding of each of our brothers and sisters is so powerful. We have to preach that to the ones that don't want to listen and understand.

Bubba Wallace

It's something we're trying to change and NASCAR is as a whole trying to bring in a younger fan base, a different-looking fan base, we're trying to change the whole demographic of the sport. Me going out to do that is something I'll take responsibility for.

Bubba Wallace

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

Bubba Wallace

For me, it's always been to be on your toes about everything no matter what you do - my mom and dad always stressed that to me.

Bubba Wallace

The year 2020 will be one to forget for sure.

Bubba Wallace

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

Bubba Wallace

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

Bubba Wallace

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

Bubba Wallace

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

Bubba Wallace

Once we started racing, my dad had his own industrial cleaning business about twenty minutes from the house, so we kept our race cars there.

Bubba Wallace

It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.

Bubba Wallace

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

Bubba Wallace

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

Bubba Wallace

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.

Bubba Wallace

No matter what faces you in life, always look up to God, and he will guide the way. You just have to walk that path very stern, and very proud.

Bubba Wallace

I've seen too many comments, too many stories from a fan, or first-time fans that have come to a race in years past and the first thing they say is, 'I seen the Confederate flag flying, it made me feel uncomfortable.'

Bubba Wallace