Jeff Gordon Quotes:
Jeff Gordon quotes - "I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I just want to help Jimmie win the championship.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “When you win four championships, you create a lot of expectations that you are supposed to be in the mix every year. This year we fell short, but no matter what people believe or what the perception is, we are doing everything possible to get back in there next season.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I thought there was no way Jimmie could win the race, or I wouldn't have left. All of a sudden I hear he wins, and I go, 'You've got to be kidding me?' That was just a phenomenal win.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “The way the championship points are structured, winning is not the most important thing. It pays the most points, but a top-five these days is almost as good as a win.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “It's been awhile. What a great, great feeling.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “It's been a while since my last win. What a great, great feeling.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It was a very rewarding race and gratifying. I could get up to third or fourth but couldn't make those passes to get the rest of the way. Once we did get up front, the car was flying. To be able to drive from 15th all the way to third or fourth, I knew we had a good one. Once we got out front, we were awesome. I knew we were in great shape.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I never got close enough to his bumper to find out how good he was. . . . He knows how to get around this place good. He was smooth and fast and made some great moves.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We're not in the top 10 battling for the championship -- it doesn't matter to me where we finish. It's where we finish each race to get ourselves prepared for next year.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “Whether I have a first great [lap] or not, I pull in after the first one. There are very few places that we actually go to where the second lap is better than the first. Now Ryan is a rare breed. Usually not only does he get the pole on the first lap, but he gets it on the second lap, too. He usually backs it up.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “That is what happened to us, I think. At the beginning of the year we went more toward them. ... But I've been telling them all year that I can't drive it like that. You put the same thing underneath me (that Johnson had), and I don't like it.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We had pieces hanging off the car that were 5 feet long just to give me that feel. And I said, 'Ooh, I like this.' Then we figured out how we could incorporate that into the car.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “The Navy views this as an outrageous criminal act that is taken very seriously.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I want to apologize to the fans. That was absolutely uncalled for what happened today. To run that many laps under caution, all the disputes on pit road, I'm embarrassed by it and I want to apologize.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “Once you win more than one, it definitely puts you into an elite group and you are going to be looked upon different. You win one, you are looked at differently. Win two and it takes you to another level.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “Only time will tell as to what we're really going to be capable of this year. But right now I feel like we're as good as anybody out there.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I don't know if we had to go win a championship in February, if that was the final event, that we'd be ready for that. But I really believe just in the last 10 races of last year, what I saw in Steve was unbelievable, and that really has me excited about getting this season started.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “Yeah, it tears our confidence down a little bit and it makes us scratch our heads, and sometimes we don't always go in the right direction. But we never stop searching for what we've got to do to turn it back around. Sometimes, you've got to take big steps to turn it around and, sometimes, it's just right there and you're just missing one little ingredient.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “It's not that we should win a championship every year. But we certainly should be contending for race wins -- and on a fairly consistent basis -- and we should be up and battling in that championship in some way throughout the year.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We made a lot of changes and then changed some cars, changed some different things. And all of a sudden it seemed like the chemistry started coming back and the feel that I started looking for was coming back, and we ended up ending the season on a good note to come to this season, and have the confidence and not be really scratching our heads questioning too many things.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “While it's still early to tell, 2005 could very well be the vintage of the decade for Washington state. Mother Nature was definitely on our side this year, delivering one of the warmest summers we've had in recent years, cool and constant fall weather and a frost-free harvest. This allowed the fruit to hang on the vine longer and enhance flavor development.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “NASCAR, 7:30 p.m. Saturday on TNT: The final race to determine Nextel Cup's Chase for the Championship participants should be one of the biggest of the season, with Jeff Gordon's status the main story line. Will he or won't he? Analyst Bill Weber says watch out if he does:] He's played mediocre ball at best all season, but he's still got a chance to make the playoffs. And if he gets in the question is: ... No, I do not.' ”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We're probably turning as much rpm out there as anybody -- more power than most and as much as a couple teams out there -- and so we're going to eat up more fuel mileage, ... The thing that definitely raises an eyebrow to me is that the No. 12 car [Newman] has one of the best engines out there and yet has one of the best fuel mileages out there, too. I don't know how that happens.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I'm not going to count on anything until we go through a few more of these weeks, and hopefully we can get some top-fives, top-10s out of those as well.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I'm not going to count on anything until we go through a few more of these weeks, and hopefully we can get some top-fives, top-10s out of those as well.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “I support the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society. Stem cell research is a big part of curing these diseases. I'm a big supporter of stem cell research.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “The Roush cars are really, really fast right now.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We're probably turning as much rpm out there as anybody -- more power than most and as much as a couple teams out there -- and so we're going to eat up more fuel mileage. The thing that definitely raises an eyebrow to me is that the No. 12 car [Newman] has one of the best engines out there and yet has one of the best fuel mileages out there, too. I don't know how that happens.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “At Talladega, you worry about the big one that takes out 17 cars. Here, you worry about the 17 little ones that take out several cars. You're always racing with people around you so you don't have anywhere to go when things go wrong. And believe me, a lot of things go wrong.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “He just continues to impress me. I feel like he won us the race last week. This week we had a car that got better all day long, and that's as impressive to me as our win at Martinsville.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “Tony is a true American racer. You can put him in any car on any track, and he'll be fast. He's good on the short tracks, the intermediate tracks, the restrictor-plate tracks and the road courses.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “He's always got that positive attitude. He works hard. He doesn't ask to be treated different or given anything special. Everything that he's gotten, he's earned from hard work, and I think he brings the same work ethics into the crew chief job.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “That's been kind of the way A.J. wrestles. You don't know what's going to happen unless you stay out there for six minutes.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “They have some outstanding individuals. You watch their scores and they score a nice amount of points. There's a reason for that.”
Jeff Gordon quotes - “We like going somewhere else where there's new kids. It's good for our program.”