288 Quotes by Jeff Gordon

I'm going to take part blame on that, but I think Tony needs to take part of it as well.

Usually when you make up 52 points it's easy. It's not difficult. It's because something happens. You don't make it up because a guy ran bad and you went out there and led every lap and won the race.

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.

Typically, Michigan has been a good track for us. In June, though, we stunk.

I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that. I need to ask him about it.

Yeah, sometimes he needs a little bit more patience. I think that with NASCAR's implementing of the no bumping and aggressive driving, it's only going to help him to be more patient and to come into his own. But as young as he is, for him to be out there doing what he's doing, I'm pretty impressed.

I'm not blaming anybody, but the overall performance was lacking. We were qualifying poorly and that put us back in the field where we keep getting caught up in trouble. A lot of awkward things kept happening.

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.

You know, we really are going to have to be as on top of our game this weekend as we've ever been. You know, certainly we're capable of that, I know that we are. We haven't shown that this year, so I'm hoping that when it is all on the line that we do step it up. I know the team is capable of doing that.