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Jeff Gordon Quotes

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“If my experience has shown me anything, it’s that good people can rise to meet any challenge.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Change, Identity, Motivational
“Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.”
— Jeff Gordon, Making It All Work
Tagged: Racing, Auto Accidents
“That doesn’t mean I’ve changed; it just means I feel comfortable letting more people see the real me.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Change, Identity
“I believe that life is a very long race, one with a lot of good runs, and a few bad ones.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Life, Quotes about Life
“A lot of times, having the raw talent and being in the best equipment makes you really lazy.”
— Jeff Gordon, 12 In 12: An Interview With Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Racing, Technology in NASCAR
“I learned to love winning early in life. In fact, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t competing in something and trying to beat the guys next to me.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Winning
“I think our sport is what it is today because of Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty.”
— Jeff Gordon, Interview With NASCAR Drivers Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Nascar
“It makes me feel old when I look at gas prices; I'm like, ‘Wait a minute—when I was 16, filling my first car up, it was like a dollar!’”
— Jeff Gordon, Interview with NASCAR winner Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Gasoline, Aging, Inflation
“You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.”
— Jeff Gordon, Talladega II: Jeff Gordon- Saturday media visit
Tagged: Choices, Decisions
“It's still a game of Russian Roulette. There are so many cars fighting for the same piece of real estate that it's easy to get caught up in someone else's accident.”
— Jeff Gordon, Game of ‘Roulette’ Team DuPont’s Next Hurdle | Hendrick Motorsports
Tagged: Racing, Russian Roulette, Car Accidents
“In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.”
— Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Nascar, Competition, Racing
“As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.”
— Jeff Gordon, Interview with NASCAR winner Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Wine, Aging
“When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.”
— Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Daytona 500, Racing
“I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.”
— Jeff Gordon, Interview with NASCAR winner Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Driving, New York
“I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.”
— Jeff Gordon, Auto Racing Notebook: Gordon fined for Bristol shove
Tagged: Anger, humor, Robots, emotions
“When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.”
— Jeff Gordon, EMS Race Team Earns Pair of Podiums at Homestead-Miami Speedway with Finali Mondali up Next | Electronic Merchant Systems
“If you win, you’re going to get scrutinized. No way around it.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Winning
“Winning is a great feeling, even if you are getting heckled.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Screw The Haters, Winning
“The key to winning Winston Cup championships is consistency.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Nascar, Racing
“When the race is over, I'm just exhausted and ready to go home.”
— Jeff Gordon, 12 In 12: An Interview With Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Racing
“I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.”
— Jeff Gordon
Tagged: Fear, Competition
“I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.”
— Jeff Gordon, Godspeed
Tagged: Faith, prayer
“I don't like to get beat in anything!”
— Jeff Gordon, Interview with NASCAR winner Jeff Gordon
“When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race. You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up, things may be going your way, things might not be. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.”
— Jeff Gordon, Godspeed
Tagged: Racing, God, emotions
“I could have gotten angry or down; could have said something silly like ‘Our engine department let us down,’ but not only did I not believe that, saying it would have been like lobbing a grenade into our garage. We’d worked for a year and a half to build a cohesive team. I wasn’t about to tear that down because of one bad week.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Keep Your Cool
“I’m no social anthropologist, but, from everything I’ve heard and read, most men go through a transition in their early thirties. Some call it ‘getting comfortable in your own skin,’ and others simply refer to it as ‘maturing.’ I like to think that I’m the same person at thirty-two that I was at twenty-five, only a little older, a little wiser, and hopefully, a little more comfortable with my life.”
— Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon: Racing Back to the Front--My Memoir
Tagged: Getting Older, Aging
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