If you win, you’re going to get scrutinized. No way around it.
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Jeff Gordon
Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American former professional stock car racing driver and currently an announcer for Fox NASCAR. He formerly drove the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in 23 full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series seasons between 1993 and 2015, and served as a substitute driver for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in select races during the 2016 season. Gordon started his professional racing career in the Busch Series with Hugh Connerty Racing, followed by Bill Davis Racing, winning three races, and began racing full-time in the Cup Series for Hendrick Motorsports in 1993. He is a four-time Sprint Cup champion, having won the title in 1995, 1997, 1998, and 2001. He also won the Daytona 500 three times in 1997, 1999, and 2005. He is third on the all-time Cup wins list with 93 career wins, the most in NASCAR's modern era (1972–present). Gordon's 81 pole positions led all active drivers and is third all-time; Gordon won at least one pole in 23 consecutive seasons, making this a NASCAR record. He was also the active "iron man" leader for consecutive races participated in with 797 through the 2015 seaso
Winning is a great feeling, even if you are getting heckled.
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.
I believe that life is a very long race, one with a lot of good runs, and a few bad ones.
If my experience has shown me anything, it’s that good people can rise to meet any challenge.
That doesn’t mean I’ve changed; it just means I feel comfortable letting more people see the real me.
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…
The key to winning Winston Cup championships is consistency.
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…
A lot of times, having the raw talent and being in the best equipment makes you really lazy.
When the race is over, I'm just exhausted and ready to go home.
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!’
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.
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.
I don't like to get beat in anything!
I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.
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…