Michael Waltrip Quotes

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Michael Waltrip

Profession : Driver

Birth : April 30, 1963

I've got my hands in every aspect of the NASCAR world, not only as the part time race car driver but as the full time TV guy and race team owner.

Michael Waltrip

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

Michael Waltrip

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is the same way.

Michael Waltrip

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Michael Waltrip

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

Michael Waltrip

I'll always wear NAPA blue. I'm thankful they were a part of my life.

Michael Waltrip

Predominantly everything I have and everything I do revolves around my commitment to NASCAR on the team ownership side.

Michael Waltrip

It's real important to me to do what I say I'm going to do.

Michael Waltrip

I love to give people chances that otherwise wouldn't have them.

Michael Waltrip

I'm a sensitive person.

Michael Waltrip

The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, 'We love you.'

Michael Waltrip

I love NASCAR. I love the sport. I love the people. I believe I love it more than I ever have because of the people that have gone out of their way to tell me that they appreciate who I am and who MWR is.

Michael Waltrip

When you have turnover, somebody not work out, they'd leave, it really affects a young organization because you don't have your process down pat. You got people coming and going who are affecting your direction. It's just really hard to start from scratch and quickly put your direction in place and be able to stick to it.

Michael Waltrip

I understand the relationships between the crew chiefs and the engineering or between fabrication and the body shop.

Michael Waltrip

I am just so proud to be able to take my NAPA car, my NAPA Toyota, to the West Coast and race in front of the fans in Southern California.

Michael Waltrip

You can't take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can't imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.

Michael Waltrip

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

Michael Waltrip

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

Michael Waltrip

I don't understand why everybody can't remember how exciting the Daytona 500 has been over the years when Richard Petty and David Pearson and Darrell Waltrip ran just the three of them racing for the win. Why do you have to have 40 cars in a pack to say it's exciting?

Michael Waltrip

Obviously you can make a pretty good living these days as a crew member or a crew chief or as a driver. But the technology is expensive.

Michael Waltrip