Felix Sabates Quotations

Personally I think its a bunch of crap. All thats doing is making the teams spend millions of dollars to convert and those guys in the shop are going to make that car go just as fast in a couple of years as its going today. So were going through this exercise and the car of tomorrow is just making everything we own today the car of yesterday and two years from now were going to be right where we are today. NASCAR has to do what they think is right, but I dont agree with them. Thats just my personal opinion.

Life is like a sandwich of sh*t and everyday you take a bite.

When you conduct your business from the weeds, sooner or later the weed-eater will run over you.

If it wasn't for him, she'd be working at Hooters.

I always knew Casey had the ability, I always had faith in him. I would listen to him on the radio and he never panicked, he always just tried to work his way through every situation. This is a big year for him and I believe he's going to put himself in the Chase for the championship.

Little E said if they call me to come do something I'll get in my car and go to downtown Charlotte, but I'm not going to Atlanta. That had a lot of influence on the decision.

I saw a face I'd never seen before. Like someone had sucked the blood out and he was ready to die.

Robby Gordon has a tremendous amount of talent, but when he pulls the helmet over his head, he knocks some sort of switch that makes him an idiot.

It comes down to those 25 points. That's what it comes down to. You can say, 'Well we had blown engines.' But everybody else had blown engines. Everybody had wrecks. That's part of racing. The 25 points was not part of racing. The 25 points was robbery.

I think were going to have a good day today, but we should have a good day every time we come to the racetrack. Thats what we get paid for. I wasnt surprised that Casey won the pole. I think if Sterling had gone out earlier he would have had a real shot to win the pole.Our teams have had some struggles this year. Some of the pain has been self-inflicted, and some of the things we just couldnt help. Itd be great to win here today. In a way, its just another race, but its a big deal to win Daytona and a big deal to win Indy. Really, its a big deal to win anywhere. It pays the same amount of points, but the money is a little bit different.

To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances. These guys are not going to get in an airplane to fly to Atlanta to do appearances.

Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.

When you're green, you're growing, and when you're ripe, you're dead.

At the end of the day, those guys in the shop are going to make this car go just as fast in a couple years as it's going today.

Think about this. Would you want to go to Atlanta at 8 o'clock at night and walk around by yourself?

Todo es justo en el amor y las carreras.All is fair in love and racing.

We've been married for fourty two years and shes always believed in me.

I've told my wife that if the Hispanic population in NASCAR keeps growing, I'm going to ask Bill France Jr. for a job.

The most important factor was all the drivers are there. To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances.

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

There's some areas in Mexico, very wealthy areas in Mexico, with a huge population around it. I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see something there in the next four or five years.

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

In business I want to be a pig because pigs get fatter and hogs gets slaughtered.

I love it. I think it's the best thing NASCAR has come up with in a long time.

If you've got $20 million coming in and $30 million going out, sooner or later your wife's going to say, 'Hey, what are you doing?'

I want to be the president of the NASCAR Hispanic Society. I'll even do it for free. I'll furnish my own airplane, my own helicopter. They won't have to give me anything.

In racing you've got to be pretty, and some of these guys you can't dress 'em up, Sponcers want someone "that can juke and jive. He has to go to into the boardroom and talk to the people. There are a lot of drivers out there today, their career is pretty much history because they have no marketability." You can't make 'em pretty. You can't drink 'em pretty, either. The difference between a 1 and a 10 is a light switch away, well that doesn't work with a race car driver. You can't turn the lights out.

I gave Robby an unlimited budget for Indy and he managed to exceed that.

It was my brother and I who pushed NASCAR for years to come to Mexico, so this is like a dream come true. This is a great, great facility. And Mexico is the gate to South America. You have to be successful in Mexico if you want to succeed in South America.

You can't have Gomer Pyle any more driving a race car, Those days are over. You've got to have somebody that at least looks good and can talk in front of a TV camera, and can sit down and talk to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

It's the natural place to be. NASCAR did a pretty good job of negotiating themselves a good deal.

They don't make any money here. But they're making investments.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Winning is like sex, the more you do it, the more you like it.

Their marketing strategy had to be changed to the young people. That's who buys the beer.

We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there

We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.

All the drivers say this is the best road course that we run.