“Irv: Hi, I'd like to register for the tryouts. Registration Official: What country? Irv: Uh... [clears throat] Jamaica. Registration Official: [smiles] What country? Irv: Jamaica. Registration Official: [stops smiling and enters the information] Huh, what do you know? A Jamaican bobsled team.”Tagged: bobsledding, jamaica
“This is what it's all about, this is whether you win or lose the race, right here in the push start! This is where you're gonna practice, right here, right here in a Volkswagen!”Tagged: bobsledding, Volkswagen
“Winning a bobsled race is about one thing: the push-start. Now I know you dainty, little track stars think you're fast. Well, heh, let's see how fast you are when you push a six-hundred pound sled. Now a respectable start-time is five-point-seven seconds. If you speed demons can't whip off an even…”Tagged: bobsledding, track stars, Dainty, respectable, barbershop quartet
“All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do…”Tagged: olympics, Time, bobsledding
“Oh, yeah, just one little drawback to this delightful winter sport. The high-speed crash. Ooh! That hurt. Always remember, your bones will not break in a bobsled. No, no, no. They shatter.”Tagged: winter sports, bobsledding, bones shattering, Pain