Bristol Quotes

(on applying to theater school, the Bristol Old Vic) I picked just one because then it would be a sign from the gods if it was not meant to be.

(about his 1974 tour) "Oh, that was a fabulous tour, one of my best. Over in England, The Rainbow . . . Bristol was the best ever . . . the Festival Hall . . . those were magical gigs. I did an encore at the latter with nobody there but Ahmet Ertegun, who owns Atlantic Records. I said, "Ahmet, I played so good tonight I think I deserve my own private encore". So we went out and played "Tonight`s The Night" for the fourth time that evening (bursts out laughing) with no one left in the theater.

Before I moved to Bristol, I would have to drive a long distance to get to meetings. I was so excited when I came here and found out that there was a meetinghouse here.

We should have pitted with the leaders late there at Bristol, ... But we didn`t, and we paid for it. But that`s NASCAR —� you win some, or none, and you lose most.

Let`s get one thing straight: there`s no such thing as the Bristol sound.

It`s probably the biggest hole I`ve ever been in in my life going into there (Bristol),

In the long term, Bristol is not going to grow by having a novelist approach to their legal strategy.

He`s just sick about it. He feels that he let his family down, and the voters of Bristol Township down. And he`s certainly not happy about not being able to vote for four years. But he`s in good spirits and he`s working to get his life back on track.

It was just Bristol racing.

Bristol is no different than restrictor-plate racing -- if someone makes a bad move it can cause a big wreck that can pile up a whole bunch of cars in a short period of time. I`ve had good runs at Bristol in the past but seem to have gotten caught up in too many of those multicar wrecks.

It`s a unique place, kind of like Bristol on steroids. It`s a lot different than all of these 1 1/2-mile tracks that it seems like we`re always running on.

I think it`s a great opportunity. Bristol is a school with a tremendous tradition. There are still a lot of people who still follow that tradition. I want to carry on what Sean Simon was doing and bring back the traditions.