Jerry Nadeau Quotes

I have struggled. If you do racing all of your life, and then all of a sudden it ends, what do you do? Do you go back to school, do you start a business? All we know how to do is race. That`s all I`ve done since my dad put me in a go-kart at 4.

It`s like when your arm or leg falls asleep,

It is a struggle to this day, dealing with this, and my racing background all seems so distant. I am having a hard time letting racing go. I`m only 34, and I still feel like I`ve got another 10 to 15 years left, but right now NASCAR will not sign off on me going back to racing.

It was a 128G (force of gravity) hit, ... It should have killed me. I`m just trying to look at my life now, figure out what`s next.

I have been out of the game for a while, and I am just starting to get sense to my brain. The outside healed fine, but what I deal with now is a hidden thing and people don`t really see it, but I live with it every day. I look fine. When I come to an event like this, the people are great, but it`s upsetting to have them come up to me and say why aren`t you racing. My mind is just not what it used to be.

It`s just been two-and-a-half years, and in the racing business you have to move on, ... You obviously can`t sit back and say you`re going to wait for someone for three years. Joe`s the driver and I am giving them space because it`s his job now. It`s not my car because I can`t do it. It`s not really something that I`m proud of.

I think he has done fine. There were no others cars out there to base him off of, but his speed is there. He is a racer. These (race) cars all have four wheels and a gas pedal. He just needs to gain experience. He will learn a lot more when he comes back here to California to race.

I`m getting better. I`m not a 100 percent. I would say about 70.

My doctors tell me I took a very bad lick, and to be happy I`m still alive, and to go choose some other path with your life,

I have a lot of ideals, I may even go back to school, ... The biggest thing people don`t realize is that racing was part of my life since I was 2, and then it all stopped. I`m trying to figure out what I`m going to do the rest of my life.