Quick Hits....

"You're not going to find a short track or race track this cool, this size, that close to a major city like this. That’s a missing piece in speedways across America. That’s something you have right here, so why don't we use it?" -- NASCAR driver Chase Elliott, on wanting the Cup Series to hold a race at the Nashville Fairgrounds (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 8/1).

“If I know that something is being done wrong and that it is absolutely harmful to our kids and we can change it, then I’m going to try and change it” -- Former NFLer Merril Hoge, on joining a class-action lawsuit against Bayer-owned Monsanto and claiming the herbicide Roundup caused his Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (“CBS This Morning,” 8/1).