Jeff Gordon Quotes

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

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.

Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.

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

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.

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

For some reason, no matter what happens in my life, I always seem to have a piece of my heart that says everything is going to be okay.

There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

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.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

Being up front is the only place to be.

Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us.

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.

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.

In our business, just getting to 40 means something...that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest.

Yeah, I've made some mistakes. Every guy makes mistakes.

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

If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.

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 feel like I'm getting to be a better driver every day.

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.

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.

Because the sport has changed, competition is not only stronger but it's deeper throughout the field than it's ever been. It's harder to win.

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.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.