John Force Quotations

Next week, it can be turned right back around. Next week, I can come out and lose in the first round and they'll take the points lead again.

The only thing that could ruin it, ... is if one of these cars doesn't win the championship.

When he went into the blower business, he did it out of a passion.

We've enjoyed being involved in the SYNTEC Outperformers program these last four years, ... because it encourages the young individuals who'll be the racing crew chiefs of the future. I want to personally salute Chris Burd as the national scholarship winner.

I actually felt kind of bad for him, because I've been there,

I'm here to tell them that anybody can be beat, but it ain't over till I say it's over. There's a lot of racing left and we expect to be right in the middle of it.

We bring 'em out of the stands into the heat of battle.

I've been saying that this is the toughest (Funny Car) field I've ever seen, ... Scelzi, he's smart. He's won championships (three in the Top Fuel division) before. And Capps is plenty shrewd, too. My hat's off to 'em, right now.

We need to go after these guys, ... We need to quit racing scared. When you're (in the points lead), you always back off a little bit and play it safe. But now I ain't in the lead. I've got nothing to lose. So let's play hard ball because I've got too much experience to suck this bad.

We've had some trouble this year, but there's nothing wrong with me and nothing wrong with this team that a win wouldn't fix,

I've got a good old hot rod here. I'm almost embarrassed. ... Quickest don't win you championships and it don't win you races. But it sure makes you feel good.

I'm excited, as any father would be. I always believed she could do it, but as a parent you worry.

It's in the gut. It hurts, ... But we've been through this before. We won't panic. We'll go on doing it the same way it's worked for us for 14 years. Don't worry about this old man.

It's both. Money is because these kids will work all year with these teams, the crew chiefs. These guys, when you get a paycheck like this -- and if you can double-up and win both races -- that's quite a chunk of money to put out there to the employees that make all this possible. Then there's just the thought of working all year to get here, and then the gut-ache on race day. If you win it's victory, if you lose it's gut-ache. Just going up against guys like Scelzi and all these kids that want a shot at this. I really get up for it. It's really big if you can win it because it's two races in one. That's what's a turn-on for me.

If you stand still, you're going to get run over,

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but there are a lot of good race cars out here, ... This is the best field (of Funny Cars) I've ever seen and that goes back to the days of 'Snake' and 'Mongoose,' Bernstein and the 'Blue Max' (references to Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, Kenny Bernstein and the car driven by three-time champion Raymond Beadle). I raced against all of them and I got spanked regular. But, bottom line, it's tougher now. There are no easy rounds.

The tune-up was good, the track is good, and the air is good, that's what it takes. If you want to win a bunch of championships you have to stay ahead of the curve. We started working on this stuff a year ago and it bit us but now the work is paying off and all three cars are running good.

They ask me, 'what the hell's wrong with you?,'

It'll come down to who makes the right adjustments, ... It looks like all of us have pretty good cars in the cool and pretty good cars in the heat. When you're that close, all it takes is one mistake.

Nothing gets old. It's always exciting, especially with the competition that we've put together this year. The guys that have made this Showdown, it was tough to make it. Robert Hight coming from behind made our program look real good, but I'm really looking forward to Indy, and I really want to thank Skoal for putting up the money to make this possible.

The car is running good. When you run good, you're always happy. We'll just go from here and see if we can win this race. We have a shot at winning. So do 15 other guys.

it rejuvenated me and all of a sudden it wasn't about winning the championship. To be honest, I didn't think about (the championship) all day. I was just happy. You know, I've got a great team and I just love to drive my race car.

That's still two rounds, no matter how you add it up,

It's kinda exciting, ... after you get over the gut ache you have every morning. But everybody's running out of races now. You can't make a mistake because two or three guys might pass you.

All the championships, all the wins and I don't ever remember feeling as proud. My kid's a driver. She just went down through there like she'd been doing it all her life.