Chase Elliott

“You're never going to replace Jeff Gordon at all.”

“I don't usually socialize a ton with other people when I'm at the racetrack.”

“I'm not going to be the one that's super talkative, this or that.”

“I've talked to my dad about road course racing more than anybody. I feel like he was a very underrated road course racer, so he's probably been more helpful than anybody even at HMS.”

“I'm also extremely grateful to Mr. Hendrick and my teammates at both Hendrick Motorsports and JR Motorsports for believing in me.”

“I don't remember getting to see my dad race a lot until later in his career. I remember being at the track a lot. I still see a lot of pictures of myself around my dad at the track as a little kid. The racing I've known him more for is during his time racing with Ray Evernham. The rest of it was before I was ever around.”

“Racing is all I've ever wanted to do. I love sports in general, love watching them, love going to games. I have a lot respect for athletes throughout a lot of different sports, but racing has always been what I wanted to do.”

“You want to strive to be the best you can be, and hopefully one of the best, if you can ever make it that far.”

“I don't think you have to go hit home runs to win races. I think we can get solid base hits with singles and doubles to put ourselves in a position to win.”

“I'm not trying to take on any title. I'm just trying to do my thing and be myself.”

“When I'm dead and gone and my dad is dead and gone, he and I will share a championship with the last name Elliott forever. I don't think it gets any cooler than that.”

“I think that you never know what opportunity might come along or who might be watching. I just think you'd have to always keep that in mind.”

“I don't enjoy having any more or less road courses. I really don't care where we go.”

“There's so many things you can't account for that can happen during each race. I just focus on controlling what I can.”

“I'm open-minded, willing to make changes and do other things.”

“Within the sports world, I think it'd be cool to go be part of a baseball game or basketball game - just something different to see what that feels like.”

“I am a big Honey Nut Cheerios fan.”

“I drive quite a bit. I always drive myself to the airport prior to a race.”

“You got to live life.”

“As I've always said, you have to do your job or you're not going to be around very long.”