Jeff Gordon famous quotes

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Being The Best #Persons

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Track #Guy #Sometimes

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Winning #Race #Feelings

I don't like to get beat in anything!
-- Jeff Gordon

#Beats

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Past #Want #Way

In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Cheer #California #Fans

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Careers #California #Racing

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Race #Car #Different

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

#Strong #Racing #Endurance

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

#Winning #Guy #Riding

I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Past #Years #Long

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Matter #Fighter #Sometimes

I saw the wreck on TV in the hauler when I was getting dressed to leave. I thought, 'Oh, he'll be fine.' It didn't look like that type of an accident. I remember walking to the bus lot, seeing Teresa walk by. She definitely had a look on her face that I had not seen on her face before.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Looks #Wrecks #Faces

I got on a plane. I remember when I got on the plane, the talk was, you know, they're checking Dale out, that it's more than what it looked like, but I still didn't think it would be anything more than maybe some injuries. Then I landed at home and my phone just lit up. I started getting those messages. I mean, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it. I was just in shock.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Believe #Home #Mean

Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Focus

I'm just another link in the chain.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Links #Chains

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

#New York #Thinking #Racing

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Race #Car #Way

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

#Mean #Thinking #Race

I think perception is important.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Thinking #Perception #Important

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Fun #Race #Long

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Racing #Models

As fast as we're going these days, especially because of the aerodynamics, we're all concerned about abusing tires. It's so fast that you're afraid of what you're going to do to the tires.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Aerodynamics #Tire #These Days

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

#People #Choices #Decision

I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Team #Ties #Links

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Love #Wine #Mean

Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Winning #Racing

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Cancer #Kids #Priorities

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Race #Lap #Closing

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

#Country #Appreciation #Wine

Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us,
-- Jeff Gordon

#Beer #Fans #Pouring

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Race #Car #Driving

You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Giving Up #Mind #Trying

There are certain times when you can maybe intimidate certain people to force them to make a mistake. There are other people you know that you've got to make a clean pass. I try to make clean passes. That's something that I've been doing since I was 7 years old and that's the way I like to do it. It doesn't mean I always do it that way, but that's the way I prefer to do it.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Mistake #Mean #Years