Sports & Recreation Motor Sports
Drive Like Hell
NASCAR's Best Quotes and Quips
- Publisher
- Firefly Books
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
- Motor Sports, Quotations, Sports
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554072736
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
"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)
About the author
Éric Zweig
est né à Toronto et habite maintenant à Owen Sound, en Ontario. Dès l'âge
de 10 ans, il était passionné de sports. Il écrit des articles à propos du
sport ou de l'histoire du sport depuis depuis qu'il a obtenu son diplôme en
sciences politiques de l'université Trent, en 1985. Il écrit également pour
les médias.
ERIC ZWEIG has been writing about sports since his days on the school newspaper desk. His books for kids include The Big Book of Hockey for Kids, On This Day in Hockey and MVP Superstars. Awesome Hockey Trivia for Kids is the fifth book in his Hockey Trivia for Kids series. Eric is also a noted author of adult sports books, most recently Hockey Hall of Fame Heroes and Stanley Cup: The Complete History (with Phil Pritchard); he was a contributor to The Official NHL Hockey Treasures, Centennial Edition.
He belongs to the Society for International Hockey Research and lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
More than 400 jabs, jibes, retorts and other remarks from Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and other NASCAR stars create a crisp, colorful cross-section of observations on jinxes, fans, family, money, stereotypes and other aspects of their fast-lane lives.
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