Jimmie Johnson Quotes

To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.

I think people - especially folks who haven't seen a lot of NASCAR - they get this idea that we're just going around in circles. And that's so far from the truth. You're running as hard as you can to get all you can every lap.

Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

We want to run at the front, we want to be competitive and, in order to be competitive, we have to have a sensible power unit.

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

I did not have the simulator for a long time but now I have it I am playing quite a lot - probably five hours a day. I am training to try to be competitive, and everything we do we want to be competitive as drivers.

We're going to do whatever it takes to bring that NASCAR style of racing on the track to full fruition. That's simply what we have to do.

To win on a mile-and-a-half is big for me.

Success to me obviously isn't having accidents or getting penalties but finishing races as high a position as possible.

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.

It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

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

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

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.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

I want to win wherever I race, the team's invested a lot in me.

That's a hallmark of NASCAR... We have gotten to where we've gotten because we're able to have the best drivers in the world, the best team owners and then giving them a package that creates the most exciting racing.

If you go back many years ago, you could cruise around and build up a big point lead. You cannot cruise around at all. You gotta be on it. And that's what I think people really enjoy. I've always believed that brings out the biggest moments, too. It brings out the driver talent.