Jodys Box

"I’m required by the GAO to inform you that just because you have been called down to the Federal Building doesn’t mean that you have done anything wrong. We just want to ask you a few questions to confirm your guilt."
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“Sorry. I don’t have any tattoos. I don't do interviews. I haven’t ripped my shirt off since that day in the Boy Scouts when it caught fire. I don’t like swearing and I don’t drink that swill.”
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I never said, "I want to make the world a better place." Conversely, I never wanted to make it a worse place—beyond taking up valuable space in the Bass Pro Shop parking lot.
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Coolness comes from the perception of others. It doesn’t come from the clothes we wear, sunglasses on our head or the disdain we express about others. Nothing is sadder than someone trying to be cool.
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And have you vowed to keep wearing the same pair until you get lucky and actually win a race?
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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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As with most young guns, I wanted out of the little Texas berg I lived in. SoCal represented a shot at the golden ring of motocross stardom.
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I don’t watch made-in-Hollywood motocross movies. We are always made to look like hillbillies, Hell’s Angels or psychopaths.
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It is important that motocross make a serious effort to fight the insidious cultural influences, organizations and policies that, if left unchecked, could change the way we do things. Which, by the way, is wrong.
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I would chalk it up to early onset Alzheimer’s disease, but that doesn’t account for the fact that I remember the formula for weights and balances from my pilot training years ago,
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"As long as you plan to throw a leg over a motorcycle, you have to look at the worst thing that can happened to you as just another part of the human comedy."
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How did I come by my distrust of technological improvements? That’s easy. I race motorcycles.
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"I see myself as the guy who pokes holes in the poke to give the buyer a better view of the pig."
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Do you define "Getting the holeshot" as leading to the first turn (before shutting off too early and ending up sixth)
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The fastest riders awareness of speed is no more exhilarating than those of the slowest 125 Novice when he his going as fast as he can—it's all the same
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They should all be glad they aren’t goalies on a losing Brazilian World Cup team.
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When people find out I’m a motocross racer, they always ask me the same questions
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I have to admit that I was a little perturbed that Dave never lifted a hand to help me. He sat on the tailgate of the Jodymobile and told Jimmy Mac all the gruesome details of how he survived
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Astronomers predicted that a 1100-foot wide chunk of interplanetary debris had a good chance of impacting smack dab in the middle of one of the 38,000 McDonald's on the planet
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My doctor said, "I can operate on it right now and it will hurt for six months or I can leave it alone and it will hurt for six months. Your choice."
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Yes, my elbows are down. I'm sitting side-saddle. I'm leaning the bike right while my weight is on the left and I'm not looking down the track. All wrong by conventional standards. But, this wasn't a conventional corner as anyone who ever…
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Modern helmet visors are not long enough to block the sun and are mounted too high to protect your goggles from roost. What's the point? Today's visor is like the hood ornament on a car—shiny and bright but useless.
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Never tell your mechanic that you think the dogs on third gear are worn out before checking to see if there are any teeth on your countershaft sprocket
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I can tell you all of the racetracks that I hated, but I cant explain why I kept going back to them
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When it comes to motocross, how could I have known better before I did it.
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A quick lesson on how to answer the questions that people who come up to you at the gas station ask about motorcycle racing
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Oh, to be unspoiled again. If only I could return to the halcyon days when I didn’t know anything about the good life. Speed and its rewards changed what motocross was all about for me
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Whenever my buddies complain about a modern track being too one-line, too dusty, too muddy or too fast, I tell them about AMA Nationals tracks that were a lot worse than the track we are at.
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Everybody is a critic. They give you the third-degree after the races, like you might have committed a crime.
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Warm thoughts of the Griffon, Gold Star, Cyclone, Big Horn, Sand Spider, Green Streak, Capra, Thunderdog, Pursang, Mudlark, Challenger, El Bandido, Combat Wombat, Victor, Woodsman2
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