Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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.
car driving drove great hard lap smooth worked
My car has been driving great all day long, I drove a smooth hard lap and everything worked out.
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.
car people perfect tech
We had a perfect car through (pre-race) tech you look at other cars, there are other people doing other things
car changes ford
We actually have just as many changes to our car as Ford has for theirs.
almost losing rather saw solid trouble winning
We're doing what we need to do, ... It's almost about not losing it rather than winning it at this point. We saw some hopefuls and contenders had trouble in New Hampshire, and I think that's the key. We got off to a good, solid start.
best five top
We're doing the best we can (without Chad) and, hopefully, we can come out of here with another top five and take it from there.
certain guarantees ride wave
This sport is so competitive, you don't know how long you're going to be able to ride certain waves. I don't think our wave has peaked. But we've been very close. We've been in the hunt. And there are no guarantees for the future.
car ten throughout top
We had a top ten car throughout the day,
apply learn race test
We want to be able to take what we learn in the test and apply it to other race tracks,
complaints fading hard racing time
I don't really have any complaints with how he (Stewart) raced me. The time he got me, it was just short-track racing. There was really hard racing out there, but I had a fading car, and I don't have any hard feelings.
aggressive car couple decide gaps laps lead offense points pressure protecting sets
Before long, there will be a couple car breakaway and some gaps from there. That's when the pressure really sets in and you've got to decide if you're protecting the points lead or if you need to play some offense and be aggressive and lead the most laps and really take some risks.
best came considered felt front maybe played race sat stayed strategy team trouble win wish
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.