NASCAR Winston Cup Teleconference Moments

BILL ELLIOTT (No. 9 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Intrepid)

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"I think I've still got a lot of energy left. You learn as you get older how to delegate your energy. You try not to get too up or too down. This business is so predicated on what you did last week. It's so hard to keep the team upbeat to go to the next week. I think that's the things you look at as far as what drives this business today. You ask the guys as far as the race team guys, to do so much week in and week out. There's so much travel and so many things going on and so many pressures within that group that I think that's the hardest thing to drive than it is for myself or any of the other drivers. Since I don't own a race team any more it's easy to go to the race track and do what we need to do. You have your ups and downs. You have days that I feel tracks are better to me than others, but yet you don't discount any of them."

"You always try to bring out the best. I always look at ways to improve myself, not only with trying different things in the race car, trying to do things differently than I did in the past, rethinking the way I do that sort of thing and not get caught in a path where you're doing one thing one way and get left behind. I think that's what a lot of race teams do today. You get to doing things one way and you don't open your eyes up to doing things a different way and that sometimes leads you down the wrong road."