Jimmie Quotes & Sayings

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game. — Jimmie Johnson

In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing better. — Thomas Keneally

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough. — Jimmie Johnson

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing. — Jimmie Walker

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. — Jimmie Johnson

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing. — Jimmie Johnson

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself. — Jimmie Johnson

Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been. — Jimmie Johnson

It's a hard thing when you've got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others. — Keith Stanfield

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt. — Jimmie Johnson

You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away. — Jimmie Davis

In East Bangor, Pennsylvania (population 800), there's a little diner named for the trolley that used to take people to the once-bustling steel town of Bethlehem. The proprietors have adorned the walls with photographs of other local things that are no more. There's one of the East Bangor band, a group of about twenty men and boys, in uniform, in front of a bandstand draped with bunting. There's also one of the Kaysers, a local baseball club, on the day of an exhibition ballgame against the Philadelphia Athletics. These were Connie Mack's A's, which team in those early 1930s featured Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove. How did a village of under a thousand people manage to have its own band? How did a cluster of slate-belt villages field a regular baseball club, apparently good enough to stay on the same field for nine innings with the Philadelphia Athletics? What — Anthony M. Esolen

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana. — Langhorne Slim

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong ... '. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion. — Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie says our socks and clothes are very religious because they are so holey — Christopher Paul Curtis

To her the earth was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration for a man who openly defied it. She thought that if the grim angel of death should clutch his heart, Pete would shrug his shoulders and say, "Oh, ev'ryt'ing goes."
She anticipated that he would come again shortly. She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. She made it with infinite care, and hung it to the slightly careening mantel over the stove in the kitchen. She studied it with painful anxiety from different points in the room. She wanted it to look well on Sunday night when, perhaps, Jimmie's friend would come. On Sunday night, however, Pete did not appear.
Afterwards the girl looked at it with a sense of humiliation. She was now convinced that Pete was superior to admiration for lambrequins. — Stephen Crane

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar, — Jimmie Davis

Drug use, once considered a private, public-health matter, was reframed through political rhetoric and media imagery as a grave threat to the national order. Jimmie Reeves and Richard Campbell show in their research how the media imagery surrounding cocaine changed as the practice of smoking cocaine came to be associated with poor blacks.35 — Michelle Alexander

So the next time I answer a late night booty call from Jimmie and I actually go over to his place, what will you do?"
... "Punch you in the vagina?"
"Exactly! — J. Lynn

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it. — Jimmie Walker

When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis. — Johnny Gimble

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx. — Lefty Gomez

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?' — Jimmie Johnson

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody! — Kurt Busch

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.' — Kurt Busch

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. — James Lee Burke

He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair. — Lefty Gomez

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong. — Jimmie Johnson

It is just awesome, there's no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car ... I'm just very proud of the moment. — Jimmie Johnson

I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for. — Jimmie Johnson

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

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated. — Jimmie Johnson

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris Dement

My fans are always extremely loyal. — Jimmie Johnson

I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different. — Keith Stanfield

I really enjoy the football season. — Jimmie Johnson

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver. — Jimmie Johnson

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car. — Jimmie Johnson

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House. — Jimmie Johnson

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment and if my mind plays games on me, I just fall back on the team. — Jimmie Johnson

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack. — Jimmie Johnson

I've been on the road since 1967. — Jimmie Walker

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. — Jimmie Davis

The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right. — Jimmie Walker

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

I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team. — Jimmie Johnson

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson! — Michael Waltrip

I saw. I wanted to start my own store so people would know that what they were buying was real. There were bootlegs around at the time that had my name on the cover, but the music had nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to compare myself to [Jimmie] Hendrix, but back in the '70s, there were some Hendrix bootlegs. — DJ Shadow

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club. — Annette Funicello

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is. — Jimmie Johnson

A song is the most intangible thing in the world. — Jimmie Davis

I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins. — Matt Millen

I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish. — Jimmie Johnson

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute
a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee. — Brock Yates

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends. — Jimmie Johnson

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak. — Jimmie Johnson

I didn't get into racing to make friends. — Jimmie Johnson

I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team. — Jimmie Johnson

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to. — Jimmie Johnson

I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off — Jimmie Johnson

I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week. — Jimmie Johnson

NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate. — Jimmie Johnson

I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one. — Jimmie Johnson

NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing. — Jimmie Johnson

I own motorized bar stools. — Jimmie Johnson

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball — Martin F. Nolan

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. — B.B. King