Jodys Box

Motocross is a sport where everybody ranks, rates and judges everyone else by the bikes they ride, clothes they wear, who paints their helmet and who has the tallest truck.
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You know as well as I do that if Charles Manson had been fast on a motocross bike, there would have been a race team somewhere posting bond for him
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When you break something, it is a visible injury (thanks to an X-ray), and it is fixable. Every crash that causes a scar is just an irritating delay in getting back to racing
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It is understandable that motorcycle racers aspire to be famous. After all, they engage is a risky sport, dress in a brightly colored super hero costumes and perform in front of audience of fanboys and manfriends
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Sports are full of stories about parents who gave up everything to make their kids successful. But, they did it for the kid, and when he becomes a doctor, lawyer or motorcycle racer, they don’t get a share of the profits
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I was a little kid the first time I saw it, maybe six years old, but I remember that Sunbeam S7 being the most majestic thing I had ever seen. I vowed to give up Tinker Toys on the spot!
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Do you feel qualified to pontificate on the meaning of life? Motocross life?
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Not your most unforgettable—his
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I was on to something much grander—earning a living no matter how well I did. As a test rider I got paid—win or lose.
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Be a successful surfer meant getting up with the sun, spending endless hours in the water, enduring jellyfish stings, Portuguese man-o-war welts and living on very little moolah, but I had prepared myself for a lifethat always involved wax.…
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Psychologists say that the brain records significant events, and the more significant the event, the longer the memory lasts
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Expertise and innovation are the watchwords of motocross, but its best to remember that experts steered the Titanic, but amateurs crewed the lifeboats.
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"I’m not nostalgic about the bikes I’m not riding, I’m excited about the possibilities of racing this one, and, most important, I get paid, win or lose."
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I’ve known Stumpy Phalange my whole life, but only because he was the brother of my racing buddy Fred Phalange and it goes without saying that he was also a couple inches shorter.
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How great was it to be a motocrosser back in the Good Old Days? Incredible! The only downside is that if you raced in 1968, you are in your 70s now
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“The only difference between winning and losing is the number of gaudy pieces of gold-flaked plastic gathering dust in the garage”
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The only problem? My father wasn’t in the German Luftwaffe, he was in the U.S. Army Air Corp, flying a B-17 out of Ridgewell, England, with the Eighth Air Force.
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“Sorry. I don’t have any tattoos. I don’t swear, I don’t do interviews and I don’t drink that swill.”
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To my way of thinking, there was no reason for Louella to worry, baby me or to make me go to the doctor for an injury that hadn't turned blue yet.
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The seven most painful words in motocross are, "How many people were in your class?" It is possible that Eli Tomac doesn’t hear these words after winning a race, but every local racer does
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I don't need to surf the internet, I have friends who report all the bad stuff directly to me
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"If your rider had pulled two holeshots, I’d assume your rider’s talent, preparation and technique were the reasons, not that he was running a bored-out cylinder."
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That idiot friend of mine Jimmy Mac chopped me off in the first turn and knocked me down. By the time I got going, I could only struggle to an inglorious — but valiant — 17th place.
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She was despondent that instead of becoming a doctor, lawyer or Indian chief—I became “her son, the motorcycle racer.” It must have been tough when the subject turned to the kids over the mahjong table.
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"The only difference between the races I’ve won and the races I lost are gaudy pieces of gold-flaked plastic out in the garage."
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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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I am not bound by any contracts, so I can use whatever I want—after all, no one is actually emulating my personal tastes or riding style.
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I'm not worried about where I place, I just want to race. However, if there is one person I hope I never have to race against, it’s me.
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How the single most famous obstacle in motocross history happened & it changed American motocross by happenstance
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If you live long enough, history repeats itself many times & and eventually the sport becomes numb to what shocked them the first time
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