Memorable Quotes!
 

Thought I'd start a lighthearted thread for once. Over the years I have heard some rather astute, funny or factual quotes from fellow racers. Maybe we could share a few? The best one I've heard or read.lately would be:

"NHRA is simply a market company with no product of it's own."
Bruce Noland - 8/1/07

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A well known, veteran stocker racer once told me that you are having a good day at the races when your name begins with 'that f__kin'...

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Ex SS racer Steve Bagwell once told me:

"It's not the size of your motor....it's the size of your wallet!"

Steve had plenty of both!

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Raymond Beadle once said this about racing..."The luck will come to you if the money
don't run out"

Reggie Winkles
4102 J/Stick

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"The tree activated, and I ran out of talent"

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Having a Display on your dash from a RacePack that tells you where are on the "Track" is "Not Legal"
No matter what you think NHRA's job is to find it.

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"Anybody can put a big motor in a little car"
by an opinionated Stock Class racer commenting to the Track Announcer concerning why he runs Stock instead of brackets or Super classes

"I could die tonight, I wanna see how fast she goes..."
by an intoxicated Stock Class racer commenting on sandbagging for ladder position

"They are too dumb to know what their looking at"
by a former National Champion (Stock, again) working on his engine, pitted along side us with an obvious deviation from the rule book stating: "prohibited"...I believe commenting on tech

"Go ahead, give me six months, it's almost winter in xxxxxx"
by a guy with a wrong manifold in Stock (again) before he got a year off

"Rusk, Texas, just follow he signs" sure!
"Edgewater? sure, just down that road"

"RTV, silicone?, no, but ask any Class racer, they use it by the truckload"
Class racer looking for RTV after teardown, stupidly asking a group of Super Class racers drinking and cooking out, basically enjoying the evening

"Can you do THAT?"
sure 'til they catch it

There's tons more....how about Dan Dvorak's comment that: "sure he's fast, he's in the wrong class, he ain't any smarter"
Whatever happened to him, and Sarge

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Upon further reflection, one of the best has to be Larry Morgan's: "You can't fix stupid"

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if your data doesnt match your results, keep your results and throw away your data! warren johnson

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"You have the wrong emblem on your glove compartment door, there are holes on the bottom of both your doors from the SS trim, you are missing the thin trim that goes down the body line on a regular Nova, and when I look under the dash I can see a 1/4 inch hole of daylight thru the firewall"

An NHRA tech person explaining the 4 things that he failed my 66 Nova stocker for in tech that had to be fixed before i could race at my first National event. 1975 summernationals, englishtown