247 Quotes by Jimmy Johnson

That was a lot of fun, but I know how aggravating losing like that can be.

I'm carrying a lot of momentum. Considering the circumstances, coming out of here in second (in the race) is a great run for the team.

That was a pretty strong lap, ... In practice the car was a little looser. I hit all the same points and did all the same things but we just couldn't get it.

I personally am not a huge fan of this new testing plan. I understand the reasons behind it, but I hate that if a team is in need, they can't go out and try to better themselves. If you're off, I don't really see a lot of chances where a team can pinpoint its problems and work through them.

That's the last thing in the world I wanted to do,

I just really slowed down the pace of the race in my eyes from what I was doing, made sure that I made smart moves that wouldn't have hung me out of the draft. I didn't try as hard to be the guy that led the most laps, made the most aggressive moves. I worked on the handling of our race car so at the end of the race we had the best driving car.

My car has been driving great all day long, I drove a smooth hard lap and everything worked out.

I look at that and wish maybe we played the strategy that (Dale Jarrett) did where he sat at the back and stayed out of trouble and then came through and was even able to win the race, ... We considered a lot of things at Talladega and we felt like the best thing for our team was to race for the win and to be up front and stay out of trouble that way and it didn't really play out.

When it runs out, you may have a stutter that will last three seconds and then it's empty. When it's over, it's over.