A biography for Michael Waltriphasn’t been written yet.
“Driving the No. 26 Sandy Hook School Support Fund Toyota is like nothing I have ever been part of in my NASCAR career.”
“I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.”
“You've got to understand, I'd been trying to get to Victory Lane my whole career.”
“You can always figure if it's a Busch race then I'm going to be at the front.”
“When you've been ridiculed and talked about as much as I have over the course of my career, pressure doesn't exist.”
“It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, 'We're going to get through this,' it means a lot.”
“I love to give people chances that otherwise wouldn't have them.”
“I always thought if you run a Marathon in less than 4 hours, there is a tick of athletic accomplishment in that. Anything over that is just an old guy with a hard head who isn't going to stop until he's done.”
“I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.”
“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.”
“I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.”
“You don't win NASCAR races without ability.”
“I understand the relationships between the crew chiefs and the engineering or between fabrication and the body shop.”
“I'm used to being judged. I know what that feels like.”
“It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.”
“Anybody can be replaced. I can be replaced.”
“I try to motivate and inspire people by showing them how much I love this sport and love this organization.”
“It's my opinion tracks got too wide. You put 43 cars on the track, and if the turns are too wide like they are at some tracks, you sort of lose perspective of what's going on.”
“You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.”
“I love being outdoors.”