Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
bring great needed thankful victory
Man, we needed that so bad, ... It was a great race, I am just thankful to be able to bring the Lowe's Monte Carlo back to victory lane.
flat hit race start tough
Man, before we hit the start of the race we had a flat tire. It was a really tough day for us.
adjust bases collect collected consistent cover everybody feeling feet final kurt last races somebody spend tear three wins year
We know that you've got to collect points, ... Kurt (Busch) last year was very consistent and collected the most points. That's everyone's baseline. You go into the final 10, if somebody is on a tear and wins a bunch, everybody is going to have to adjust their game. But going into any series, you want to cover your bases and be solid. . . We'll go to Loudon and get our feet wet. We can spend our first two or three races just feeling things out to see where we need to be.
across country football road team three tired trip
Three road games. That's a long trip across the country (to Seattle). This was a beat-up football team and a tired football team.
remain treat
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
almost calls close coming couple difficult effect happy inside outcome somebody spun
Yeah, I wasn't real happy ... at that point, ... Being inside of somebody is pretty difficult here and especially coming off the turn. There were a couple of close calls where I almost spun off inside of him and got a little upset. But fortunately it didn't have an effect on the outcome of the race.
barely block brian bumper moved
If I wasn't going to win, I wanted Brian to. He moved down to block me, but I had just barely got my bumper under him.
disney executives found less
I found most of the Disney executives to be less than forthcoming,
anybody hope
If anybody can make it clean, I don't know who it will be. I hope it's us.
car great last needed
From the first lap, the car was right on the money, and off we went. We had great stops, and it was really what we needed after last week.
came changes extra good knew night time work
For us, we knew we had an extra day and that we could take our time and work through some things through the night and come in with a plan. We came in and made some really good changes to the car.
early fast gas pedal run save tough track
But the track is so big and so fast that the way you run fast and competitive is having the gas pedal down, and down as early as possible. So it's a tough place to save fuel.
bottom bought catching hard knew last matt protecting slowly
I was slowly catching Matt before that last caution. I thought long and hard about what I would do if I was protecting the lead. I knew I wanted to be on the outside. I faked kind of to the bottom and he kind of bought it.
behind dove hit returned underneath
I got hit from behind going into the turn, I dove it in there and he got underneath me. If I could have got back up there, I would have returned the favor.