Carolina Quotes
You need to save all your nerve and skills and stuff till it's real important. Then use them.
Junior Johnson Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Pete Daniel, Dover, Delaware, 4 June 1988; Southern Oral History Program (C-0053), UNC Chapel Hill
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“You need to save all your nerve and skills and stuff till it…” Junior Johnson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7F1148C90A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7f1148c90a
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