Kevin Harvick Quotes

There's no bigger thrill than beating the guy you're not supposed to beat or winning a race you're not supposed to win.

- Kevin Harvick

Winning, Bigger, Race, Beating

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

- Kevin Harvick

Learning, Good, Focus, Race Car

I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.

- Kevin Harvick

Doing, Normal, Pretty, Race Car

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

- Kevin Harvick

Own, Similarities, About, Conclusions

I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.

- Kevin Harvick

Year, Yard, Painted, Pools

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

- Kevin Harvick

Professional, React, I Think, Analyze

These regional series - we need to have them strong to feed drivers to the Truck series. Nothing against ARCA, but NASCAR needs to have their own series be their own streams.

- Kevin Harvick

Strong, Needs, Regional, Streams

When you have the most stable team in the garage from a financial standpoint and manufacturer standpoint, that attracts good people.

- Kevin Harvick

Team, Financial, Garage, Attracts

I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

- Kevin Harvick

Through, Dramatic, Having, Finishes

You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.

- Kevin Harvick

See, How, Races, Laps

If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.

- Kevin Harvick

Chance, Leading, Pole, Laps

I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important.

- Kevin Harvick

Love, Some, Ryan, Fan Base

I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.

- Kevin Harvick

Fan, Fortunate, Solid, Fan Base

I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.

- Kevin Harvick

Had, Smashed, Several, Braces

I always like my chances at Daytona.

- Kevin Harvick

Always, Like, Chances, Daytona

For me, I believe that Dale Jr. has had a big part in kind of stunting the growth of NASCAR because he's got these legions of fans and this huge outreach of being able to reach different places that none of us have the possibility to reach, but he's won nine races in 10 years at Hendrick Motorsports and hasn't been able to reach outside of that.

- Kevin Harvick

Big, Nine, Big Part, Possibility

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

- Kevin Harvick

Think, Always, I Think, Grab

The officials in the garage do a great job.

- Kevin Harvick

Job, Garage, Great Job, Officials

One thing I can't stand is when people - not our team, but other people - don't respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text... using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

- Kevin Harvick

Other, Everybody, Using, Email

We get paid a lot of money to do what we do, and there's a lot of people who are dependent upon that car running well and us getting everything out of it as a team. So I'm very, very loyal to my team and the company.

- Kevin Harvick

Team, Loyal, Very, Dependent

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

- Kevin Harvick

Go, Through, Picking, Dependent

We have a great group of people and sponsors around us, and you don't want to send them out as outcasts because you have this newfound success and this new tool of things you can sell.

- Kevin Harvick

New, Want, Sell, Send

Winning takes you to that next level of being a bigger star.

- Kevin Harvick

Winning, Star, Next, Next Level

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

- Kevin Harvick

Pretty, Mixed, Gets, Bored

That's your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There's a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.

- Kevin Harvick

Play, Circumstances, Happen, Contention

I want to thank everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, everybody at Ford for just continuing to put the effort they put into these cars.

- Kevin Harvick

Racing, Want, Everybody, Continuing

My favorite part of any military feature, aside from the people themselves, is how clean and organized everything is. I like things clean and organized, and they don't get any cleaner or more organized than they are in any branch of the military.

- Kevin Harvick

Branch, Part, Favorite Part, Cleaner

There were some struggles throughout the year at RCR. In order to keep yourself relevant, you had to find a headline. In order to find a headline, you had to do something that wasn't right, like jump over a car or say something you shouldn't.

- Kevin Harvick

Year, Some, Over, Struggles

A lot of the kids we have coming up through our ranks now have been in stock cars since they were 12 or 13 years old. It's much different. I think you have to pick a path. If you want to race open-wheel cars and do those things, it's probably going to be carts and into an open-wheel series.

- Kevin Harvick

Through, Been, I Think, Stock

In my opinion, the most stagnant thing in our sport is our schedule and our venues that we go to.

- Kevin Harvick

Schedule, Go, Most, Venues

I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.

- Kevin Harvick

Need, How, Going, Smarter

There's a difference between a superstar and a megastar.

- Kevin Harvick

Difference, Between, Superstar

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

- Kevin Harvick

Change, Want, Sometimes, Excitement

Experience will always win in this sport. That experience helps with a lot of things, even in the race shop. You are going to have experience in certain scenarios where you can make those right decisions.

- Kevin Harvick

Race, Always, Shop, Scenarios

If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.

- Kevin Harvick

Back, Come, Had, Guarantees

I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.

- Kevin Harvick

High, Last, Junior High, Junior

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

- Kevin Harvick

Big, Expect, Things, Big Things

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

- Kevin Harvick

Race, Always, Could, Full Time

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

- Kevin Harvick

Strengths, Over, Years, Open-Minded

The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.

- Kevin Harvick

Night, Race, Like, Situations

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

- Kevin Harvick

Guys, About, Too, Retiring

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

- Kevin Harvick

Think, Reason, Some, Busier

We don't ever want to lose a deal. So we treat a $5,000 sponsor like a $5 million sponsor, both because it's the right thing to do and because we've grown a lot of our sponsors from thousands to millions.

- Kevin Harvick

Treat, Deal, Sponsor, Sponsors

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

- Kevin Harvick

Change, Like, Things, Stagnant

When we're outside of the racetrack and in our team meetings, you need to communicate with your teammates and do what's best for the company in order to give the people that work there the best opportunity to succeed and maximize the potential of their job.

- Kevin Harvick

Best, Communicate, Your, Maximize

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

- Kevin Harvick

World, Call, Definitely, Phone Call

It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.

- Kevin Harvick

Lose, Kind, Sucks, Attached

How many times have you had a crappy Super Bowl, but everybody goes to the Super Bowl because it's an event.

- Kevin Harvick

Goes, Everybody, Crappy, How Many Times

Life is an evolution.

- Kevin Harvick

Life, Evolution

The day that Chase Elliott wins his first race is gonna be one of the best moments in NASCAR racing because of the fact of how impactful it will be for all of us in NASCAR racing.

- Kevin Harvick

Racing, Fact, Wins, NASCAR

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

- Kevin Harvick

Think, Sometimes, More, Relaxing

I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different.

- Kevin Harvick

Characteristics, Them, Based, Driven

I like the challenges we face in the future. That motivates me.

- Kevin Harvick

Challenges, Face, Like, Motivates

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

- Kevin Harvick

Car, Luck, Bad, Driver

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

- Kevin Harvick

Practice, Doing, Other, Stall

I definitely want to get more involved in making sure that West Coast racing is healthy and where it needs to be.

- Kevin Harvick

Making, Needs, Sure, West Coast

We've definitely been in a few positions where it's come down to the end of the race and we've been able to close the deal, and we've definitely been in position where we've lost a few.

- Kevin Harvick

Race, Deal, Been, Positions

I'm more comfortable inside the car than I am anywhere else.

- Kevin Harvick

Car, I Am, More, Anywhere Else

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

- Kevin Harvick

Doing, Next, Been, Circle

The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.

- Kevin Harvick

Roots, Fact, Going, Hardcore

Dale Jr. has never gotten a fair shake from the start because, guess what? He's not his father. He was always supposed to have been someone else. The pressure he's under is unreal.

- Kevin Harvick

Always, Been, Shake, Unreal

In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he's won seven championships.

- Kevin Harvick

Seven, Guy, Johnson, In My Opinion

Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.

- Kevin Harvick

Sometimes, Keep, Shut, Mouth

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

- Kevin Harvick

Luck, Bad, Having, Handle

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

- Kevin Harvick

Golf, Racing, Like, Basketball

I'm going to quit when I feel like I'm not having fun anymore or I'm not competitive.

- Kevin Harvick

Like, Going, Having, Competitive

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

- Kevin Harvick

Mindset, Week, Race, Teams

It's always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.

- Kevin Harvick

See, How, Always, Relate

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

- Kevin Harvick

Luck, Been, Side, Slow

I've been fortunate enough to have won a lot of races and do a lot of things in my career.

- Kevin Harvick

Career, Been, Lot, Races

It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.

- Kevin Harvick

How, Able, General, Enjoy Life

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

- Kevin Harvick

Chicken, Anymore, Spring

I'm just a normal person.

- Kevin Harvick

Person, Normal, Just, Normal Person

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

- Kevin Harvick

Same, Like, Keep, Same Thing

Chase Elliott winning is better for our sport.

- Kevin Harvick

Winning, Better, Our, Chase

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

- Kevin Harvick

Sports, Everyone, Figure, Everyone Else

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

- Kevin Harvick

Path, Everyone, Same, Everyone Else

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.

- Kevin Harvick

People, Want, TV, Event

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

- Kevin Harvick

Up, Little Bit, Bit, Broken

Racing's my life.

- Kevin Harvick

Life, My Life, Racing

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