Dale Earnhardt Quotes

• "As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers."
• "At Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet, we are proud to have the GM Goodwrench Service Plus sign at the entrance to our dealership and to carry it on the hood of our race car."
• "But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship."
• "But to win races and to race up front and to still want to do it like I do... I think their scorecards are wrong."
• "Finishing races is important, but racing is more important."
• "Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father."
• "I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving."
• "I enjoy Saturday night racing."
• "I see it on pit road when we make better pit stops and that comes from harder work back at the shop, practicing, testing, trying to get better."
• "I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."
• "I turn 50 in three years, and I don't know whether I want to race past that or not."
• "I want to be up front racing."
• "I want to thank Goodyear and Goodwrench and all of the guys. Richard Childress and all the guys did a good job."
• "I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500."
• "I'm racing for the wins and racing up front and finishing in the top 10. It's puzzling to me how you can judge a driver on that."
• "I'm winning races, I'm competitive. I'm seventh in points, and they talk about (me) being over-the-hill."
• "I've got to prove myself as a car owner with the (No. 1) car for Steve Park and the (No. 8) car for Dale, Jr."
• "I've got to win every race."
• "I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place."
• "I've never won the Daytona 500 before."
• "If I can win races and win championships, I feel like my future is going to be OK."
• "If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever."
• "If we turn those into top-5s, we'll have a good shot at the 2000 championship."
• "If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week."
• "It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself."
• "It's bottomed out from 15 cars to 25 to 30 cars and you got to be right on and keep the team in tact to be competitive."
• "It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy."
• "It's unique to race in IROC."
• "Kevin Hamlin and I got real comfortable working together, and our team just kept looking better and better and better."
• "Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors."
• "My job is to drive that black No. 3."
• "People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive."
• "Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars."
• "That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be."
• "That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race."
• "The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show."
• "The disappointments you go through, the chapters you write each year of the race, and to finally win this race it's just as big for Richard Childress and him and his family and his whole organization as it is for me."
• "The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
• "To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen."
• "To win is also great."
• "To win more championships and stay alive in this sport, it's very, very, hard and it's hard to understand how it works."
• "Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle."
• "We have set our goals for the rest of the season and a big part of that is having good runs in the remaining races."
• "We've been disappointed with our performance at Richmond the last couple of years."
• "When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible."
• "With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path."
• "You want to be in the top-five, racing for the lead."
• "You win some, lose some, and wreck some."
• "You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."