Yarborough Quotes & Sayings

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw. — Cale Yarborough

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst. — Bill Vaughan

San always called it "figiator" - flanked by two large, — Tom Yarborough

Deeply ambivalent also is carnival laughter itself. Genetically it is linked with the most ancient forms of ritual laughter. Ritual laughter was always directed toward something higher: the sun (the highest god), other gods, the highest earthly authority were put to shame and ridiculed to force them to renew themselves. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it — Ralph Yarborough

Most dads had hobbies that they passed down to their sons; hunting, fishing, auto repair. Dad's hobby was nuclear war, which meant his sons knew everything about it. — S.A. Bodeen

Apathy. What's hard to understand? They don't care. Not until it affects them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen. — John Piper

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport. — Cale Yarborough

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms. — Cale Yarborough

Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth of itself - that we had always been 'the good guys,' conquering injustice around the world. The tens of thousands of mistreated half-American children born in Viet Nam are one untidy fact we have been unable to fit into that myth. — Trin Yarborough

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. — Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance. — Cale Yarborough

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. — Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. — Cale Yarborough

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on. — Bindi Irwin