The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters. Not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those 10 seconds or less, I'm free."
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- Nominated: 'You can have any brew you want. as long as it's a corona', recommended for high school yearbook quotes because it phrases a non-choice as a choice; and 'it's not how you stand by your car. It's how you race your car', another yearbook candidate.
- The quarter-mile speech is put forward as the best quote of the movie, and the other host agrees it has to win because the series pulled it into part seven's ending after Paul Walker was gone, with 'that's why I knew you were my brother because you did the same', a thought that nearly chokes one host up; the only other real contender is 'ask any racer, any real racer'.
- An addendum: Brian's line before the first race, after Dom mocks his talk of racing for respect and Brian's reply that to some people that's more important, should have been among the quotes; it is the first sign the two will get along, echoed in part eight when Dom hands a beaten racer his car back and keeps the respect.