Geoff Smith Quotations

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.

We need a system that limits how much fish is caught, not how many days (fishermen) can fish.

If this were the only thing that ever happened to Jack, it might be a little easier to take. But we'll get through it.

If the driver thinks that Roush Racing is exactly the same as four other deals in the garage, and 'I just need to go get the high bidder,' that's probably not the right driver for us.

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

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.

We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, ... effective today.

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change. His general philosophy is, if we don't get a couple things better, we're going to have a couple drivers miss out on the Chase.

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change.

I think in the world of The Chase, Jack recognizes that you have to make changes earlier in the year than you would in years past. We are dealing with a 26-race regular season instead of 36 races. Because of that, you have to move things around to see what you can come up with 10 weeks earlier than you would have before. But I think anyone who has really watched our race teams closely this year knows that we have run better than the final numbers might look.

It is hard for Jack not to believe that there is a laser bulls-eye on his forehead.

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

We don't think Carl will be affected in the slightest in a negative way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.

You end up getting into what tennis is it'll be one winner, or two winners, the same three guys all year.

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.

Is it a coincidence? We don't know. It's just hard to believe that it is.

Our experience is the drivers know what they want and why they want it. I don't think having someone between you and the owner helps.

A lot of R&D happens on job sites.

At Daytona, Eric finished sixth, did a really nice job driving his way through the field.

It's the last straw for Roush Racing. We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, effective today.

It's the last straw for Roush Racing, ... We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, effective today.

There's supposed to be some degree of flexibility with regard to the types of relationships bigger teams can have with a start-up.

The key is really getting those units to work together. Like the 2 and the 12 (teams) oil and water, right? But if the 2 and the 12 were compatible in crew chief and driver and all that, then that's all it would take.

And six Busch programs, three full-time, three part-time. And the part-time are all over 20 races.