Clint Bowyer’s best quips after huge Martinsville win

Clint Bowyer, known for always giving a good quote or two, was out in full force after his huge win at Martinsville Speedway on Monday.

Here are the affable driver's best quips from his victory celebration.

'I was starting to reflect on this, and the one thing that's always missing is a picture with him.' -- Clint Bowyer on having not won (until Monday at Martinsville) since son Cash was born.

'For whatever reason, it felt right driving up (to Martinsville.) It’s such a cool place to be able to drive up through the countryside on a two-lane road and think about the race. I told (Cash) this morning, I was like, 'Dammit, we've got to get our picture in Victory Lane.' He told me he wanted a checkered flag.'

'Tony Stewart, being able to get out of this car and retire, giving me the opportunity of all people; he could have picked anybody. This was something that meant a lot to me, as I've learned a lot from him over the years, and even at a place like this, he texted me ... it was the only bummer text that I got all day long is it was his text instead of his old grizzly bear (hands) grabbing me in a choke hold or something and telling me what I needed to do right, it was a text from him saying, 'good luck today, you know what to do, be patient, let the race come to you,' and that's exactly what we did, and that was a formula for winning.'

'We finished second three times last year. We got close. We just had too many valleys in between the peaks.'

'It's hard to watch your teammates, whether it's Kevin as a driver or Rodney as a crew chief on his side, it's hard to see your counterparts have all that success and to be able to say, 'yeah, we had a good run,' but it still fuels that fire, and it can either be a detriment or a positive attraction, and for us, it just made us want to get to Victory Lane.'

'How about them ol' Kansas boys, huh? It was a good week to be a Kansan.' -- Bowyer on the Kansas Jayhawks advancing to the Final Four.

'Your struggles since (October 2012) are well-documented -- ' 'I appreciate that.' - Clint Bowyer

'Hell yes (I had doubts.) Yes, it was pretty dark for a few times. That was a year.'

'This place is an acquired taste. When I first got here I was a duck out of water, just like everybody else that starts here at first. I learned from Jimmie Johnson and learned from Jeff Gordon, sometimes the hard way, but nonetheless I learned over the years and finally put it to good use.'

'All you guys was hard on us last year. We learned a lot. I learned a lot about myself. You know, and Buga and I, we fought a lot. There's no question. We fought a lot. But there was no questioning the passion that either one of us had.'

'Everybody knows, last year that was a lot of panic on my behalf, on Mike's behalf, everybody's behalf. I mean, we're expected to perform. We've got this opportunity, and we just couldn't put it all together. I'm telling you, this year it's ... racing is fun again.'

'I don't know what it is about being in Victory Lane and sharing that, but that's that burden that's been haunting me for a long time. It's finally off your back, and you can finally have confidence knowing that you're a winner again.'

'You start to thinking about what really matters in life. The one thing I didn't want (son Cash) to go through in life is not knowing what (being in Victory Lane) was all about.'

'Speaking of relationships, I guarantee you that's the neatest thing about motorsports and everything, part of it, is when I get to that phone it'll be people from Richard Childress that gave me this opportunity, to Michael Waltrip, who gave me an opportunity in 2012, to fast forward to Tony Stewart, the people that are giving me this opportunity today, and these guys that I'll be able to share this stage with. Those are the cool things that you'll remember forever.'

On why he was quiet on the radio in the closing laps: 'I was busy, dammit! That's Kyle Busch in your rear view mirror!'

'How we going to get (the grandfather clock) home? We're gonna be the dang Clampetts. We're gonna strap the clock to a van.'

'Going to the hospital (on the off weekend.) That would be a safer measure for me right now, jumping in whatever ambulance is here and tell them -- just beg them to take me to the hospital.'

'Everybody that knows me knows that I have fun and run my mouth and I'm goofy and everything else, but I do appreciate this opportunity and appreciate the army of people that make this possible for all of us.'