Brock Yates Quotes

• I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

  Brock Yates

  Car, Motorcycle, Fast Car

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

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  Running, New York, Moon

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• I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

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  Sports, Writing, Fighting

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• Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

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  Character, Fighting, Men

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.169, MotorBooks International

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

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  Zero, Media, Car

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• As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

  Brock Yates

  Truth, Reality, Events

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• Sé que esto es una blasfemia, pero hace unas semanas intenté ver una carrera de NASCAR en Talladega. Duré unos cinco minutos antes de que el aburrimiento terminal se apoderara de mí. No parecía más que un recorrido de alta velocidad por la autopista: una multitud de bultos de metal idénticos y pintados con colores chillones circulando a 180 mph por el arcén, guardabarros contra guardabarros, morro contra morro. Sabiendo que la situación se convertiría en un derbi de demolición de varios coches que entusiasmaría a los bobos de las gradas, apagué el televisor para enterarme más tarde de que esta vez había sido Jimmie Johnson quien había provocado la pelea de ocho coches.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

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  School, Race, Giving

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• At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.

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  Ak 47, Iron, Car

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• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  Brock Yates

  Book, Car, Racing

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• Hubo un día en que podías identificar un Ford, Chevrolet o Dodge de la NASCAR y realmente parecían "stock cars". Ahora son máquinas de vaina, pulcras por fuera, pero todavía propulsadas por los mismos motores neandertales de 8 cilindros en V carburados que han estado bajo sus capós durante medio siglo. Si esto son carreras de coches de verdad, entonces la WWF debería formar parte de los Juegos Olímpicos.

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  Real, Car, Racing

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• The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

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  Law, Nuts, Style

  Brock Yates (2003). “Cannonball!”, p.13, MotorBooks International

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• Si hubiera sido más responsable, podría haber hecho algo como comerciante de bonos basura, camionero de larga distancia o quizás contratista de fontanería.

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  Ties, Long, Junk

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• La bicicleta es un antiguo juguete infantil que ahora se ha elevado a la categoría de icono porque, presumiblemente, puede trasladar la forma humana de un pilar a otro sin dañar el medio ambiente.

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  Children, Moving, Icons

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• Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

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  Cutting, Doctors, Guy

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

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  Swimming, Night, California

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• Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

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  Fitness, Exercise, Thinking

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• Si los números significan algo, nos dicen que queda mucha más vida en el denostado motor de combustión interna de lo que cualquiera de los izquierdistas de los estados azules podría imaginar. Primero gana el loco de Bush y ahora esta noticia. Qué deprimente.

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  Depressing, Mean, Winning

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• El automóvil, a la vez causa y efecto de esta descentralización, se adapta perfectamente a nuestro vasto paisaje y a nuestras pautas de desplazamiento, generalmente confusas y contrarias.

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  Confused, Confusion, Car

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• Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

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  Sports, Race, Skills

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• The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

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  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.102, MotorBooks International

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• If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

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  Art, Way, States

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• Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

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  Events, Logos, Nascar

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• The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

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  Running, Pride, Bridges

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• A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

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  Law, Immigration, Regulation

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.126, MotorBooks International

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