"Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesnâ€™t back down from his comments. He doesnâ€™t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what heâ€™ll do and what heâ€™s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad."

Source : "SPEED Quotes: Byrnes, McReynolds, Petty, Waltrip Talk 2013 NASCAR Season", www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2013.

Darrell Waltrip

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence”
“Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.”
“Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.”
“Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.”
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