Eric Jones
Eric Jones
Eric Jones is a former part-time NASCAR driver. He ran in the Busch Series and had some of his best success in the Craftsman Truck Series. He won one NASCAR Midwest Series before moving up to major NASCAR...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth12 July 1977
CityByron, MI
contest last motivated photo placed took
I took a photo just for last year's contest and placed second. That got me motivated and really started it all.
loads running
Right now we're running pretty rough, back and forth, we have a lot of loads here and there...I've been running in and out.
either good knew raised
Either way, I knew I was going to the district. I've been raised to be a good sportsman.
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Hispanics are said to be keeping themselves apart, avoiding the use of English, and declining to absorb on the spot the 'core' Protestant and individualist values that underpin the American way of life ... but precedent suggests that young Hispanics will eventually merge their identity in the larger American one, just as previous streams of immigrants have done.
conversion difficult longer people process realize
I see a lot of underestimating when it comes to the conversion process. A lot of people don't realize that the process of actually doing a conversion can take longer and be more difficult than people expect.
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We had a game plan to not get beat off penetration and to make their guys shoot the ball over us. For three and a half quarters it worked. But a few turnovers, a couple missed shots down the stretch got us. But I'm proud of the kids, they played hard.
close
We're close, but as you can see, we're not close enough. It's frustrating, but we just have to keep working at it.
brought buy gas money
We don?t have the money for a rental. We only brought enough to buy gas back to Oregon.
battle
We're just inconsistent. Day-to-day, that's the battle we're facing. But that's my job; we have to try and find that consistency.
flashes proud shown ways
We've shown flashes and made strides, which we're proud of. But we have a ways to go, too.