BEST OF JODY’S BOX

Everyone needs a road map to get where they are going, but are we talking Rand McNalley, Thomas Guides, Google Earth or the good old "Turn left at the red mailbox?"
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Things I know about my friends. Fred Phalange swerves down fast straights, Jimmy Mac never passes anyone on the outside and Crazy Dave will cross-jump on the last lap of a close race.
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I never thought that Jimmy Mac would be gone. He was so much fun to be with. I know I will miss him
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Over time, I stopped walking like a drunken sailor and holding on to things to stay upright—as long as I didn't look up or down. With those limitations, I went back to racing
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"I've won Championships, but they were so long ago that if there were no plaques on the wall I would have trouble remembering them"
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My buddy Fred Phalange's wife Corinne told Fred that if he wanted to keep racing, he would have to quit racing 450s and get a 250 or a 350.
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I’m embarrassed when I hear a professional motocross racer talk about his Instagram page. Isn’t Instagram for 16-year-old girls? I don’t want to know that much about anyone on the planet
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It is a given that people cheat, not all people, but people who accuse other people of cheating must know what they are talking about based on their previous experience. Saying, "You cheated" is really a confession of sorts.
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I don’t adhere to the “win or die trying” philosophy in motocross (or on the freeway)
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"You should wear knee braces if the pain in your knees is greater than the pain of wearing knee braces. If I had to choose knee braces or being water-boarded by the CIA, I'd be gurgling right now."
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I was a little late getting home from the races, but I'm glad I hung around to hear the end of the story
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Not every pit conversation is worth the time, but on occasion there is a gem to be found
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Fame is fleeting, who you are after it fades is more important than who you were on the top step of the podium
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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 Jody mobile and told Jimmy Mac all the gruesome details of how he survived
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"There is friction in the air. Bad vibes. Gender tension of the worst kind. Luscious Louella, the love of my life, has been giving me the look."
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"I paid to send him to the university so that he could be a surfer who races foreign motorcycles in a field somewhere. What degree is that?"
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It's not a matter of whether you broke the rules or not, it's more about who you are, who you ride for and who you know
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"I wanted everything to be perfect for the next day’s race — it was important to me, as it was the only race I was going to that day."
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Motocrossers are good people. They have shared interests, speak the same jargon and understand each others motivations. I have to admit that Jimmy Mac is the personification of goodness. Okay, maybe he is a little to goody-two-shoes for my…
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I embrace technology with open arms—and accept that the next time I’m flying through the air, whether by YZ250 or aerobatic airplane that Jacob Bernoulli, and men like him, are guiding my hand
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Advice, especially good advice, is only valuable if you desperately need it—otherwise federal laws will suffice
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If I wanted to race, and I did, I had no choice but to unload what Crazy Dave kept calling “a garbage scow on wheels.”
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Fred Phalange could artfully categorized people into closely defined niches, bordering on a caste system, based solely on the icons they displayed in the windows of their trucks
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"There is a pecking order to the sponsorship gravy train. Eventually the money filters down to everyone of prominence — maybe even me!"
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It's not wrong to wish that motocross was as big as NASCAR, Formula 1 or MotoGP, but you do realized that will bring a host of unsavory beliefs, attitudes and ways of life from whatever sport they raped the year before.
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Friends are there to help you when you get confused, but often friends want to wait to see how it turns out before offering advice
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Racers find the scary moments funny and each time they tell how they endoed down Mount Saint Helen they laugh louder
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Word are like swords—they still have the potential to cut even when in the scabbard
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When they pulled off the track, grown men cringed, dogs cowered under trucks and women held their children to their breasts. They were both angry and everybody could tell it. “Get out of the way you stupid jerk,” was the only thing they…
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Lots of racer’s mechanics and friends believe that they are Svengali’s. They think that a pep talk, a few trite phrases and a pat on the back will inspire their buddy to go faster. I wanted to tell Jimmy Mac to put a cork in it.
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