31 Quotes by Geoff Smith

I think in the world of The Chase, Jack recognizes that you have to make changes earlier in the year than you would in years past. We are dealing with a 26-race regular season instead of 36 races. Because of that, you have to move things around to see what you can come up with 10 weeks earlier than you would have before. But I think anyone who has really watched our race teams closely this year knows that we have run better than the final numbers might look.

It is hard for Jack not to believe that there is a laser bulls-eye on his forehead.

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

We don't think Carl will be affected in the slightest in a negative way.

We didn't put that pressure on Carl because we didn't want him overdriving, ... We didn't want him to think his employer thought he should be able to do it. But he thought he should be able to do it, his team thought he should do it, we believed he could do it, and he did it.

We would have had a very good chance of having the sponsor pulling the contract at that moment after the entire history of positive racing followed by negative personal qualities.

We were taken by complete surprise by their remarks last weekend. We felt like we wanted to make it an intellectual issue if we were allowed to.

There can't be any activity engaged in by a driver that the general community would believe negatively impacts on the brand or on the team or on the company.

We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.