Quick Hits...

"We're way underpaid as race car drivers. There's no doubt, doing what we do, the schedule that we have and the danger that we incur every single week, NASCAR drivers should be making NBA, NFL money" -- Driver Denny Hamlin (ESPN.com, 10/4).

"Everybody recognizes the need to be unified, have some solidarity in the discussion. It's not really a matter of politics. It's using the platform we have to speak for others. It's a goodwill thing" -- Bulls C Robin Lopez, on the team linking arms last night during the national anthem ahead of its preseason game against the Pelicans (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/4).

"It’s going to be weird for everybody. It won’t feel right watching other guys wear that maple leaf and they’re good players, but they’re not the best players in the world at that tournament" -- Avalanche F Nathan MacKinnon, on watching non-NHLers make up the Canadian Olympic team at the PyeongChang Games next year (AP, 10/3).