Jeremy Mayfield Quotations

We're going to stay positive and not let nothing get us down,

We know how to get into the Chase. It's a whole different deal after you've gotten in to win the championship in the last 10 races than it is in the first 26. We've got some work to do, and we realize that.

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

I don't expect any changes other than we might add a few people. Chris (Andrews , team director) and I have started to come together.

I don't even know what it is. I like all the guys on the team, I think they like me. It just ain't happening.

We've got to step it up a little bit and we all know that. We're trying hard to do that. It's not a one person deal -- the whole team has got to step up and do more than we ever have and dig deeper than we've ever dug.

I think fans of those drivers just have to accept the idea that their teams just haven't been very good, very consistent or very lucky this year. It can happen. With only 10 qualifiers, good teams are going to miss the Chase every year. NASCAR will survive.

I think he?s just patiently trying to hope it will all work out. But if we?re not careful, 10 races will be in and we got 16 races to go and we won?t be in the chase.

I?m sitting there trying to feel Chris out, he?s trying to feel me out on how to communicate.

You kind of let things happen and you hope for the best. But it's not going to work out like we are right now. If we keep doing what we've been doing, it ain't going to work. So we've got to do something different. What that is, I don't know.

Well, the good news is that we started the Chase out better than we did last year, ... The bad news is that we battled the car all day long. We just couldn't get the handling right. We really wanted to come out of here with a top five or a top ten, but at least we didn't come out with a DNF.

Every win I've ever won in this series is like that, full of drama. Right up to the wire you never know.

We had a great car, we just had that right front go down, ... I just screwed up and got back up there and then screwed up on pit road (speeding). Then we cut a tire down. We had a good car all day, a great car.

We weren't good the whole time here. We got better as the day went on, and the last couple of weeks haven't been good for us,

I've been doing this a long time, longer probably than I get credit for. I've been here a long time now, and I've seen a lot of things happen. ... I've been beat up, tied down, shot up, spit out and everything else.

It would be for us to run better than we've been running.

I've always wanted to run a black car, ... They just look cool, especially under the lights for a night race. I like to operate in stealth mode, and maybe they won't see me coming in the black Dodge Charger. Hopefully I can drive right by them to the front of the field.

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

You see it every week. Guys are staying out (on cautions) and leading laps and stuff, trying to get all the points you can if you're in the Chase or not. I've noticed it every week, and it will all add up at the end.

It was a good day, ... I didn't have a really good car but we came home where it counted there in the end.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem was. It was pretty wild because we never have problems like this, but it's going to happen every once in awhile. This team will keep digging.

If somebody gets hurt, then whoever made the call to change the race track needs to feel a little bit responsible.

If you don't want to be somewhere, you don't want to be there,

If you're not careful, this thing can get to you, trying to get in the top 10 for the chase.

but he did it and it was uncalled for.

If everything would have played out right, we would have had a top-five finish or maybe even a win the way it was looking toward the end of the race, ... It easily could have been a great day for us, but we're going to take 16th and not look back.

He races to win. He's been a great addition to our team this year.

You've got to go out every lap and get all you can. There's no laying back, no being cautious, no being safe. You've got to run hard every week. If you're going to win the championship, you've got to run up front.