JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
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Teams still prioritize corner. When you think of all the wide receivers drafted, like Detroit taking a wide receiver (in the first round) three years in a row, you need corners to match up and not just one or two, you need three.
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Sometimes things aren't as good as they look. Every driver wants to race in Nextel Cup, but I learned that if you can't run up front it's not much fun.
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Everybody works just a little bit harder. They drive their employees very hard.
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Beating and banging, man I was worried that my car was tore up too bad to be competitive.
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As soon as they started reading 'The Lord is My Shepherd,' they broke down. Seeing the family suffer, the tremendous amount of suffering, you can't put it into words.
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You get nervous when you see fluids. There wasn't any fluids -- just Busch trying to get out of the way.
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You'd rather have everything go wrong on one day than things go wrong on a bunch of days. Hopefully, we got all that stuff out of the way and we'll come back the next game and have some fun.
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The track was a lot faster and it had a lot more grip. I like it, it was real smooth and they did a great job.
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The tires are wearing out pretty fast. Everybody has the same tires, so everybody is dealing with the same problem.
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We have a lot of freshmen coming from winning teams. We know how to win and we know what it takes to win. I have confidence in my teammates and myself. This is about imposing our will.
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We wanted to make Sandburg work for everything. Sandburg is good when they are allowed to set up something. We wanted to keep Sandburg from establishing a comfort zone. We figured some pressure would keep Sandburg on the run and prevent that comfort zone.
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That was the thing that indicated to us that Coach may not be back next year.
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I was pretty optimistic last year going into the season. The only thing different this year is I have my cousin working with me again. So, there is that comfort aspect and familiarity. It is easier to know what to expect this year, whereas last year, we were optimistic but uncertain about how well we were going to do. He (Tony) is really good at what he does. We are family and just communicate well, even though we don't always get that right either. For the most part, he is one of the best crew chiefs in the garage. He builds a great race car.
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I was pretty down this morning because of the situation. But when I found out I was a Chicago Bear, it kind of brought a little light to the day. ... I can't let something like this let me have a bad start to my football career in Chicago.