36. “Before that, it was kind of a macho thing. It was like, 'Just get in the race car and drive.' I've never concerned myself with being very macho. I try to be smart, be educated and do the right thing. That has become more popular today than it used to be. People are willing to talk about (safety) now.”
~ Jeff Burton
37. “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.”
~ Jeff Burton
38. “I knew we had a shot a running well but I didn't know we could run that well.”
~ Jeff Burton
39. “We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.”
~ Jeff Burton
40. “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.”
~ Jeff Burton
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