Top 2018 NASCAR Playoffs Media Day quotes

'We should make a deal that if we just wreck the 'Big 3' the next several weeks, we're going to have a much better shot going to Homestead. We can, like, split the profits from the championship. It would go a long way.' -- Austin Dillon, jokingly, on battling the 'Big 3' in the playoffs

'Yeah I think it is (fair to be an underdog). We haven't led many laps, we haven't won any races. We have some work to do.' -- Jimmie Johnson

'Please do not wake the sleeping giant. Do not wake him up!' -- Clint Bowyer on Jimmie Johnson

'We all want nothing more than to give a second championship trophy to put up on the mantel and send him (team owner Barney Visser) out on top.' -- Martin Truex Jr.

'My team cannot afford mistakes. We don't have enough points built up, so we have to be flawless every week for the next 10 weeks.' -- Austin Dillon

'Yes I will wreck his ass, wreck him, to win a championship. Here's where the problem lies -- he'll do the same thing.' -- Clint Bowyer on what he'd do with the title on the line

'This time last year, I was sitting on the couch, so to be a part of the playoffs is a special thing.' -- Alex Bowman

'The last two races have been a dream come true for me.'-- Brad Keselowski, who enters the playoffs with consecutive wins at Darlington and Indianapolis

'I would be shocked if none of us (Big 3 plus himself) makes it (to the Championship 4).' -- Brad Keselowski

'That can't even be a bet, or a line, in Vegas.' -- Kyle Busch

'I approach it (the playoffs) like every other race weekend. You try to win the race, win stages and get points. It's just that the prize is a little bigger and you put a different label on it.' -- Ryan Blaney

'What has he ever shown that would make anybody think that he's not capable of doing that anymore? I don't know, he damn sure shows me every time he's at bat, that he's capable of winning races and winning championships. And until that day is over, I'd say you'll see Kevin Harvick stepping up to the plate.' -- Clint Bowyer on SHR teammate Harvick potentially driving another 6-7 years

'It has been hard on me. There have been days and weeks and, unfortunately, months when I’m much stronger dealing with it and other times when it’s a little more difficult.' -- Jimmie Johnson on his winless 2018 season

“Yeah, Katelyn wants a warm wedding, and I race during the off-season so I didn’t want to mess up my offseason plans. It happened to work out that we can do it right before the ROVAL there. So, it’s coming fast and I am ready to get it done.” -- Kyle Larson on his plans to marry fiancee Katelyn Sweet during the playoffs

'I’ve been tested a lot and had to go through adversity quite a bit, but that’s life as you know, that’s just part of it. How you get through those things is how you show what you’re made of. Anybody can win, anybody can have great days and have everything go their way, that’s easy, anybody can do that. When you show your true colors are when you’re put in tough situations.' -- Martin Truex Jr. on Furniture Row Racing folding