Brian Vickers Quotations

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they'll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one after, but somewhere down the road it all usually evens out.

Rick hasn't put any pressure on me, and neither have my sponsors. The most pressure is coming from myself.

I don't know that it's necessarily going to help you go faster. But it will help you get to know the racing's facilities.

I can't hold a grudge against him for that. If he didn't try to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don't know if I could respect that.

I went to the bottom as quick as I could ... he just got under there.

I wish I'd pulled harder to the bottom to block Jimmie, but we might have wrecked too. We missed the big wrecks, and we blocked when we could, and it was a race to the finish. At this speedway ... you've got a 50-50 shot - block high or block low - when they're coming at you.

I thought everyone was doing a good job. It all broke loose. This is my first time at Daytona, and I got the full skinny.

Those guys still respect him out there, and they're still pushing him to wins.

The 5 and 25 teams have been hitting on all eight cylinders since July. I knew it was only a matter of time until one of the teams went to Victory Lane. I try not to think too much about getting that first win. We'll continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.

We ended up getting in front of the 24, but I saw he had a run on us. I blocked him and it took the momentum off him, but the 48 (Johnson) took advantage of that to get past him and then he got past me. Jimmie got low on me and I should have gone harder to block him, but then again, we all might have wrecked.

When it comes down to the end of the race, a 1-2-3 finish is great. But all three of us wants to be 1.

When it comes down to the last lap I can't expect anything out of those guys. If they go with me, great. But if they don't, I'm not going to hold it against them.

We're going to continue doing what we've been doing for the last two months and when it comes, it comes.

At the beginning of the season, a lot of people were expecting success right out of the box, but even we knew that was not going to happen.

Even though (McGrew) and I have worked together in the past, a lot of guys on the team were new, some were even new to Hendrick Motorsports. It was a learning process for all of us.

Even though testing at Daytona can be boring at times, I really wanted to be there. I got a clean bill of health from my doctor just this morning, so I'm ready to go.

I guess the NASCAR meetings haven't been enough for some people. I have no idea what he was thinking. That was one of the dumbest things I've seen. I hope I don't find him.

It was a good run for us all day. We didn't have the fastest pit stops but we were consistent.we tried to run up front most of the day.it was pretty calm up there most of the day where we were.in the end it got a little dicey.

You come down to the last couple of laps, and teammates or not, all bets are off. He learned what he had to do, obviously, because those guys still respect him out there and they're still pushing him to wins.

It's easy for me to sit here and say, 'Hey, this would have been my first win, Jimmie, why did you try to pass me?' Well, this was a win for him, too. I can't hold a grudge against him for that. If he wouldn't have tried to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don't know if I would have respected that.

There's a lot of difference in the two tracks. About the only thing they have in common is the half-mile part, and there's some difference there.

I always try to take as much time off as I can. You're just that much better when you get back.