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title: "2 High speed Quotes By Brock Yates"
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> [I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/i-realize-this-is-blasphemy-but-a-few-weeks-ago-i-tried-to-watch-a/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fb/brock-yates-20099_banking_i-realize-this-is-blasphemy-but-a-few-we_1799390.png)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/why-the-hell-not-run-a-race-across-the-united-states-a-balls-out/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

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## Other authors on High speed

- [Mehmet Murat Ildan 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/high-speed/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

## More by Brock Yates

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/they-still-talk-about-the-night-that-augie-pabst-a-fresh-faced-heir/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/had-i-been-more-responsible-i-might-have-made-something-of-myself-as/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/unlike-conventional-jocks-who-tend-to-sell-aluminum-siding-and-give/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/more-books-more-racing-and-more-foolishness-with-cars-and-motorcycles/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/the-whole-movie-thing-has-never-been-a-source-of-great-pride-for-me/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/i-admit-to-wasting-my-life-messing-around-with-fast-cars-and/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/regardless-i-did-rise-to-the-editorship-before-embarking-on-a/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/some-critics-of-racing-witlessly-claim-that-spectators-only-attend-to/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/the-bicycle-is-a-former-child-s-toy-that-has-now-been-elevated-to/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/some-guy-once-told-me-that-skydiving-is-like-cutting-your-throat-and/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/a-written-regulation-in-nascar-is-about-as-reliable-as-an-egyptian/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [ To be sure, \[NASCAR\] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys"… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/to-be-sure-nascar-stars-were-initially-ex-bootleggers-for-the-most/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/will-a-day-come-when-our-cars-have-carbon-fiber-tubs-18-000-rpm-v-10/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/there-was-a-day-when-you-could-identify-a-nascar-ford-chevrolet-or/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brock-yates/while-greenies-and-their-media-flunkies-continue-to-savage-the/)

[Brock Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brock-yates/)

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