Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton
Jeffrey T. "Jeff" Burton, nicknamed "The Mayor", is an American retired stock car racing driver. He scored 21 career victories in the Sprint Cup Series, including two Coca-Cola 600s in 1999 and 2001 and the 1999 Southern 500. He currently serves as a color analyst for NBC Sports, having joined them upon their return to their coverage of NASCAR. His brother Ward Burton and his nephew Jeb Burton have also competed in the Sprint Cup Series...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth29 June 1967
CitySouth Boston, VA
degree held higher involved marketing maybe message responsibility thorough
I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.
focused hard proud question stayed trying
You question yourself. You question everything. But I'm proud of myself. I stayed focused through all of it. We're working really hard and trying really hard to get back to the top.
equipment last needed
For us to excel, we needed to have better equipment than we had last year.
bullets hide streak
The first thing you do when you're in a streak like we've been in is you hide all the bullets in your house.
crowd hoping pulling
I'm really hoping they're in it because I know the whole crowd will be pulling for them.
cry knew lose race somebody stomp time
He didn't stomp his feet, cry and pout. He didn't lose it. He knew when the race was over it was time to be somebody different.
bottle certainly door environment gone knocking laughed saying ten toward
It's such a different environment, I can't even tell you. Ten years ago, knocking on somebody's door saying 'Do you have a bottle of wine?', they would have laughed at me. It certainly has gone more toward wine-drinking than just beer-drinking for sure.
digging turned win
I was digging after the restart and it just turned sideways. I am disappointed that we didn't win or do better than that in the end.
debate diverse hours lack needs reason
Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.
knew running shot
I knew we had a shot a running well but I didn't know we could run that well.
everybody further knew move moved moving needed richard time
I think that Richard and everybody (at RCR) knew they needed to move forward. But I also think that any time they moved away from something that they were doing, they were moving further away from Dale.
groove knock race track
He went a groove up the race track to knock us out. Unbelievable.
dig heels knocked last ourselves priorities race running trying wins year
For us, every race is important when you've been knocked back on your heels and you're trying to get back in the fight. Right now, we don't have to dig ourselves out of a hole. If we keep running the way we're running, we'll get our wins and we'll do what we need to do in points. Our priorities have to be going fast. That's what we couldn't do last year. That's what I couldn't do the year before, or the year before that. That's what I have been able to do this year.
difference gets initial later minutes
When you first make the initial impact, it still is big and it gets your attention. It's how you feel 30 minutes later that the big difference comes in.