Kevin Harvick

Racing's my life.

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

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.

I think some of that comes with age, with life in general, to try to keep yourself as healthy as possible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.