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The Teardown

12 Questions with Jimmie Johnson

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The 12 Questions series of interviews continues this week with seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports, who heads to Dover this week looking for a 12th win at the Monster Mile. 1. How much of your success is based on natural ability and how much has come from working at it? I think … Continue reading "12 Questions with Jimmie Johnson"

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

0:24.6

I'm your host, Jeff Gluck.

0:26.5

And today, very happy to be joined by seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmy Johnson on a 12

0:33.2

questions version of the podcast.

0:35.4

Really appreciative of Jimmy taking the time to do that at new hampshire

0:39.6

motor speedway because i believe jimmy is the first driver to do both the social spotlight

0:44.6

and the 12 questions this year i've been trying to have drivers pretty much stick to one or the other

0:50.5

not to double did too much but as we get late in the season here and, you know,

0:55.6

sort of running out of people in some ways, I wanted to double back with Jimmy and see if he

1:00.2

do the 12 questions.

1:01.2

And he said yes, so very appreciative of that.

1:04.1

So let's take a listen to what he had to say.

1:08.0

All right, everybody.

1:08.8

I'm here with Jimmy Johnson.

1:10.1

And Jimmy, the first question is, how much of your success is based on your natural ability and how much has come from working at it?

1:16.8

I think the majority of it's come from working at it. When I look at my early years on motorcycles and earlier four wheels and so on, I've been a slow learner to a certain degree and really had to focus

1:29.9

and work hard to kind of polish up that last bit to make me a champion.

1:34.6

So I'd say I'd put it at 50-50, I guess.

1:40.1

So Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, now Dale Jr. have all either retired or are retiring.

1:46.3

What's your pitch for fans of theirs to become fans of yours?

1:49.5

If I haven't won them over yet, I don't think I'm going to.

1:53.5

Just stay in the sport.

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