247 Quotes by Jimmy Johnson

It's been a tough week for us. I wish Chad was here, I know he is kicking the TV set in right now, so bummed out. His hard work got this team to where it is.

He was all over me and ran me real hard, which he's supposed to do,

It's right around the corner for us, ... Every race counts. If you're able to win, it definitely sends a message.

He was way, way out of it and won a whole bunch of races at the end and came real close, right down to the last lap at Homestead, and anything is still possible.

It's part of our sport. It's kind of like going to a football game, and you hope you see a big hit or a big tackle. It's part of the theater that's involved with our sport; it's part of what draws fans in. If we were out there in go-karts running 10 miles an hour, they wouldn't be watching. It's part of the risk. Of course, I don't want anybody to crash, I don't want to crash, but we've made a lot of gains in the safety department so that we are having wrecks and everybody is walking away.

He will be back after just a couple of weeks at home.

It's part of our sport, ... It's kind of like going to a football game, and you hope you see a big hit or a big tackle. It's part of the theater that's involved with our sport; it's part of what draws fans in. If we were out there in go-karts running 10 miles an hour, they wouldn't be watching. It's part of the risk. Of course, I don't want anybody to crash, I don't want to crash, but we've made a lot of gains in the safety department so that we are having wrecks and everybody is walking away.

He is at home going crazy over this and I would imagine he will come back much more conservative. In some ways I am disappointed because he has always been one to drive technology in our sport.

It's not a good thing to come from the back, there's going to be a lot of risks that I'm going to have to take to get to the front. I'm going to have to be on my toes at the start of the race.