Geoff Smith
Geoff Smith
GeoffreySmithis a British long-distance runner who won the Boston Marathon in both 1984 and 1985...
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth24 October 1953
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The people that were watching us for 10 years telling us why it wouldn't work and they wouldn't invest in it and thought that that was the wrong way to compete were a little foolhardy.
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We've asked Kenny to return for an encore performance. He did a really nice job in a car that was not set up for him and he didn't have any practice in the car.
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We didn't put that pressure on Carl because we didn't want him overdriving, ... We didn't want him to think his employer thought he should be able to do it. But he thought he should be able to do it, his team thought he should do it, we believed he could do it, and he did it.
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We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, ... effective today.
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We think Kenny deserves a chance with a car that is set up for him and with an entire weekend of work with the team.
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We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.
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You end up getting into what tennis is it'll be one winner, or two winners, the same three guys all year.
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We don't think Carl will be affected in the slightest in a negative way.
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We were taken by complete surprise by their remarks last weekend. We felt like we wanted to make it an intellectual issue if we were allowed to.
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There can't be any activity engaged in by a driver that the general community would believe negatively impacts on the brand or on the team or on the company.
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We would have had a very good chance of having the sponsor pulling the contract at that moment after the entire history of positive racing followed by negative personal qualities.