Brock Yates Quotes About Racing

Quotes about: Racing

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

  Brock Yates

  Book, Car, Racing

• 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.

  Brock Yates

  Character, Fighting, Men

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

• 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.

  Brock Yates

  Men, Thinking, Motor Racing

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

• 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.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Race, Skills

• There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

  Brock Yates

  Real, Car, Racing

• 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.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Writing, Fighting

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