Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
couple cushion looks stretched
It looks like we've stretched out a little cushion over a couple of guys,
anniversary brian crash help lost loved pain people plane teammate thinking tough
It's going to be so tough for all of them and I know they all do different things to help the anniversary pass, and with as little pain as possible, ... Another person I'm going to be thinking of is Brian Vickers. It's his birthday. The plane crash was on his birthday, of all things. So, as a teammate and friend, to be there for him as well as the other people that lost loved ones on the flight.
chad great hopefully job loss perform quite track training
It's going to be quite a loss not to have Chad here, but he's done a great job of training us all and hopefully we can be out on the track and perform as if he were here.
It's going to be like that in a 10-race battle,
chance entire
It's his chance to shine. It's our entire team's chance to shine.
motivate stronger
It was frustrating. It's only going to motivate us to come back stronger this year.
fishing good highlight justifies point proves tournament
It's a good point in my career. It's more of a highlight to make it twice. It justifies my tournament fishing and kind of proves it.
tough wind
The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.
chief crew hard hating jealousy job last team
There's been a lot of hating on the 48 team over the last year. I kind of look at is jealousy and (Newman) doesn't have a crew chief in there working hard enough to get the job done.
good risks start toes
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.
good risks
It's not a good thing to come from the back. There are a lot of risks I'll have to take,
believe best fired job telling trained
It was just telling them to do their best job ... get them fired up for the race. It was something that said, 'I believe in you guys, I've trained you well, do your job.
final races waiting
It's just one of those cycles, ... We're a championship team, and we've been waiting for the final 10 races to get it together. We have all the tools.
seems start
It seems to start right around Brickyard time.