txtom Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Keep Buddy Baker in your thoughts and prayers; he has inoperable lung cancer. Buddy was a NASCAR pioneer, but he also excelled in broadcasting. Some of the funniest race broadcasts I ever heard involved Buddy and Neil Bonnett. Best wishes to one of the truly nice guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted July 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 This was a list of Buddy Baker quotes I posted back about 2004. Funny stuff... No thread of racing quotes would be complete without some from Buddy Baker. so here goes: From SCR, March 1998 "My wife cooked cabbage last night. I asked her, 'My Lord, how could you get an ass in a pot?" "We finally found out where Spam comes from. It comes from a spig." "Jeff Gordon's handling down the straightaways. I mean, he's flying down the straightaways." "Ernie Irvan could go bear hunting with a switch. He ain't never afraid." "With ten to go, I didn't have a code of ethics." "I never lost my job while I was leading a race." "Wally Dallenbach's like a kite without a tail out there." "You can tell that you're in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face." "New tires are like Superman medicine" "I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backward's for two years." "My purpose in life was to run 100%. Maybe it cost me some races, but nobody ever hired me to ride." On a newly re-paved Darlington - "The new asphalt is like putting a tuxedo on a rattlesnake." On being asked to do a TV piece on conserving fuel - "I told them they better get somebody else, that I didn't know anything about saving gas." "I always wondered how a guy running right with me for 100 miles was able to keep going when I ran out of gas. I guess it had something to do with the way he held his mouth - huh? " On one of his old Plymouth's - "I could stand up in the seat and not hit my head." "Cale Yarborough would wear out a set of gloves a race pulling them up." "Cale Yarborough would have to call a service station to get a tire changed, but he's as good as anyone who ever drove a race car." On his brain surgery - "I'm going to have minor brain surgery." "Remember, if the world was perfect you wouldn't need roll bars in race cars." From the Busch Race at Nashville - 1998 "Dave Blaney'll learn, you don't mess with Dick Trickle." "Man, I've hit everything but the lottery." To Casey Atwood - "Do you shave yet?" From Texas Motor Speedway - April 1998, After Patty Moise shut the door on Jimmy Spencer for the third time. - "Oh man, Patty Moise does not know Jimmy Spencer like I know Jimmy Spencer". From Nashville Speedway - April 1999, on the Gibson Guitar Buddy himself won at Nashville - "I was like a pig with a wristwatch" After witnessing Mark Day drive into the back of Mark Martin (no relation) at least 3 times on the same lap and finally wreck him. "I'd like to say something nice about that wreck but I can't think of anything" "Sometimes it takes several laps for a wreck to happen" With reference to a driver in a Pro Truck race - "He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner" On Kenny Irwin getting into Jimmy Spencer at Dover Downs - Spring 2000 "Oh boy, that's Jimmy Spencer. That's like stickin' a stick in a bears cage, that is. I don't think he wants to do that again." On Rick Hendrick and Felix Sabates - "Well I don't know which one has more money but I'll tell you what. Either one could burn a wet mule with hundred dollar bills." "Race drivers are schizophrenics...I'm a completely different person outside of the car." From Hickory Speedway "Short track racing is by all means a contact sport" Buddy was interviewed after a superspeedway race in which he drove through a smoke screen full of wrecked cars. The comentator praised his skillful driving...Buddy's response "it's amazing what you can do with your eyes closed" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.j.&s.racing Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 The one my brother and I always liked was. with three laps to go I'm going to make that car so wide.. I'm going to open the doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeg Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Sorry to hear this news. I would trade NBC for Buddy and Neil anyday and pay boot as well!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claybuster Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Memories, has a good reason why I rarely watch a NASCAR race. Miss the good'ol boy comments, instead of the scripted/FCC stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiTech Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 .... it is sad the true nascar fans of past will lose another race legend.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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