Drive Like Hell: NASCAR's Best Quotes and Quips

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"Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you have feathers on your legs or butt."

- Dale Earnhardt Sr.

NASCAR racing is fast, furious and filled with colorful characters who have lots to say -- sometimes at the most inopportune times. Drive Like Hell celebrates the wit and wisdom of the NASCAR circuit. Race fans of all ages will love this entertaining collection of quotes and quips from today's stars and the legends of auto racing.

Here's a small sampling of the more than 400 quotes:

They name streets after guys like that -- One Way and Dead End. (Tony Stewart on Greg Biffle)
I'll apologize to them after they get me to the front! (Dale Earnhardt Sr. on being told by his crew that he was hurting his tires)
If I dig any deeper, I'll be in China. (Kyle Bush, when told by his team to "dig in" during the latter stages of a race)
Drive it like you stole it, homie. (Crew chief Chad Knaus' advice to Jimmy Johnson during the final race of the 2006 Chase)
Why did! take up racing?! was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal. (Kyle Petty)
We go six times faster. (NASCAR CEO William C. France, when asked why deaths in auto racing were six times more common than deaths in football)

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ISBN-13: 9781554072736
Publisher: Firefly Books, Limited
Publication date: 9/14/2007
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 911,089
Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Eric Zweig is an author and journalist who edited three other Quotes and Quips books: Par for the Course; Gentlemen, This is a Football; and Home Plate Don't Move.

Introduction     9
Age vs. Experience     12
All in the Family     16
Bumper Cars     23
Champions     33
The Chase     37
Cheaters     42
Cheating Scandal     46
Dangerous Driving     50
Driven     54
Early Days     57
Fans     62
Fate     64
Finally!     68
Foreign Invasion     71
Good Advice     76
The Great American Race     79
Headaches     84
Huh?     85
Indy Cars and Formula One     89
Insults     90
The Intimidator     95
Jinxed     100
The King     104
Last Lap     108
Life Lessons     111
Modesty?     112
Money Back Then     113
Money Today     115
Near Misses     118
Ouch     120
Overheated     122
Patience is a Virtue     126
Pedal to the Metal     130
Philosophies     132
Pressure     135
Snappy Answers     137
Southern Stereotypes     143
Split Personalities     147
Sponsors     151
Teamwork     154
Telling It Like It Is     159
Ultimate Price     168
Index     172
Photo Credits     175
The Author     176

Preface

Introduction

"I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I'm pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of 'em. I'm looking behind me driving like hell."

- Rusty Wallace

I like that quote. Sure, it's where the title of this book comes from, but it's more than that. In just two sentences, this quote encompasses the essence of NASCAR. It's the thrill of modern racing -- with a hint of the stock car's "good ole boy" roots.

NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) was formed in 1947. The "Strictly Stock" division (which has become the circuit we know today) started in 1949. But stock car racing is much older than that. Its roots date back to the Prohibition era of the 1920S and 1930s. (Even as late as 1941, stock car legend Lloyd Seay was killed in a dispute over illegal whiskey. Longtime NASCAR president Bill France Jr. has referred to him as "the Dale Earnhardt of 1941.") Obviously, running whiskey from hidden stills to hundreds of markets across the U.S. Southeast was a dangerous business. The drivers needed fast cars and a lot of guts.

Eventually, as the moonshine drivers got more and more competitive, they took to racing. And fans came out to watch them.

Today, of course, NASCAR has expanded well beyond its original Southern fan base. But then again, stock car racing has always had fans in far-flung places. Growing up in Toronto in the 1970s, we had racing at Pinecrest Speedway and, in the 1950s and 60s, there was stock car racing in the Stadium at the Canadian National Exhibition, where the CFL's Toronto Argonauts and later the Toronto Blue Jays played.

I got myearliest stock car experience attending Saturday night races at the Barrie Speedway in Ontario. It was lots of fun, and even on nights when we weren't at the races, you could hear the roar of the engines at our family cottage some three miles away. I still hear the roar on Saturday nights and it always makes me smile. The Barrie Speedway is the kind of place that current NASCAR driver Greg Biffle is referring to when he says, "running under the lights at the local short track, that feels like home."

I think what I liked about the stock car races even then, although I was years away from getting my license, was that these looked like cars anyone could drive. They weren't like Indy cars and Formula One racers. These were the cars you saw on out on the road -- only with cooler paint jobs!

But of course, it's a lot tougher than it looks. As sportswriter Peter Golenbock says, "If baseball is chess with a bat, ball and glove, stock car racing is chess on wheels."

But you don't often get 100,000 fans screaming at a chess match. You didn't get 100,000 fans at the Barrie Speedway either. Still, I understand it when Kurt Busch says, "the coolest thing is when you come to a race ... when you see it live and you get the sound and you get the feel and then the smell."

Let's be honest. You won't get that here. But I had a good time putting this book together. I hope you'll enjoy it too!

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