Jodys Box

"You learn as much from being wrong as you do from being right." Thanks, Ed!
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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 caused a scar was just an irritating delay in getting back to racing
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Let’s not confuse fame, bravery and heroics with what we do. We race—not just the elite few, but all of us
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"When I do it right, which isn’t very often, the race is a blur. I don’t mean a blur as in obscured by speed (because given my current speed that would be silly), but blurred by the fog of war
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"Hey, do you know that guy over there? You know, the guy with the 2017 KX450," I asked Jimmy Mac as we sat on the tailgate of my 12-year-old Toyota Tacoma
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I ran into Jimmy Mac in the pits after our second moto. I hadn’t seen him all day long. He had started pitting way down the hill at Glen Helen ever since he got that new girlfriend
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If I said yes, I felt like the next step would be a photo of him standing on my neck while holding the pen like an elephant gun.
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"I never really liked ‘Jody’s Box.’ You seem like an egotistical know-it-all," said a guy who leaned on my bike as I worked on it
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I envy the young their innocence, uncluttered minds and total lack of prejudice, pride or avarice.
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Where I’ve been, whom I’ve seen, things I’ve done and, without a doubt, things I’ve forgotten to do
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"Can you describe any distinguishing scars that can be used for additional identification?" asked the Swiss Grenzwachtkorps Border Guard
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When something broke on my 1974 Hodaka 125 Super Combat, I replaced it with a part from some other source, eventually the number of stock Hodaka parts were in the minority
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Don’t burden your local shop's mechanic with your woes; however, it’s in your best interest to show up friendly and a box of chocolates would be nice
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Have you ever read the AMA Professional Rule Book? I suggest it for light reading and a good laugh. After thumbing through it, I always wonder if the AMA officials are reading the same book that I am.
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If someone really wanted to race, they would be racing on whatever kind of beater they could afford.
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"I remember exactly where I was the day that John F. Kennedy was shot, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and when I couldn’t fit into size-32 pants anymore"
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"You just go out like it’s Sunday in the park. I go out like it’s Thursday in Kandahar."
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Being married extends a man’s life span by 10 years—and it shortens his racing career by about the same amount
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I don’t want the "Jody School of Motocross Medicine" to be just another fabulous profit center for the vast Jody empire; I want to provide excellent service to American motocross racers
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15 cool rules that would make the sport bigger than NASCAR and provide the fans with a thrill a minute—not that the Dunlop Tire Roll wasn't exciting
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No need to reminisce about the past, your future is about the same
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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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You can't relive the past, but you can visit — go find your old scrapbook now!
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How the single most famous obstacle in motocross history happened & it changed American motocross by happenstance
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You gotta read this, it's the dark version of motocross bike history
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You’d be surprised to find out how many bikes I dislike on a Thursday, but love on Sunday (and, of course, vice versa)
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You've got to wonder what is guiding the people that end up in charge of our sport
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When people find out I’m a motocross racer, they always ask me the same questions
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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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As an inherent part of my mental make-up, I despise the status quo (and the status quo at the AMA is stuck in 1985)
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