Top 32 Brock Yates Quotes
#1. A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.
Brock Yates
#2. Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.
Brock Yates
#3. The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
Brock Yates
#4. I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
Brock Yates
#5. For he comes, the human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping
than he can understand.
W.B.Yeats
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
Nikki Rowe
#10. Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
Mason Cooley
#12. Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.
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#14. I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
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#15. The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
Brock Yates
#16. 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.
Brock Yates
#17. If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
Brock Yates
#18. 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.
Brock Yates
#19. Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
Frank Herbert
#20. you create your brain from the input you get.
Ray Kurzweil
#22. Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Brock Yates
#23. You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on
And face life even when it seems all hopes gone
Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title
You my future my happiness my heart my idol
Fat Joe
#24. 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.
Brock Yates
#25. Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock Yates
#28. Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.
Brock Yates
#29. If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.
Brock Yates
#30. Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.
Kelly Perdew
#31. 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.
Brock Yates
#32. The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
Brock Yates