Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. /ˈɜːrnhɑːrt/, known professionally as Dale Earnhardt, was an American race car driver and team owner, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. He began his career in 1975 in the World 600 as part of the Winston Cup Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth29 April 1951
CityKannapolis, NC
CountryUnited States of America
race racing important
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
mean winning driving
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.
sports winning nascar-racing
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
two rifles favorites-things
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
inspirational motivational sports
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
mean hunting racing
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.
american-celebrity points races saying
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.
american-celebrity harder pit road stops trying work
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.
beating gets good great growing racing relationship together
I like working with him. We have a really good working relationship. It's even better now than it was. We always had a great relationship growing up and all that -- racing together and all that. But this racing gets to you sometimes and we got to beating on each other a little bit. So it probably was a good thing.
came gets paying race sleeping start talking
Not paying his bills, sleeping on the floor. But all he wanted to do was race and that came first. It still gets me to start talking about Earnhardt. I get emotional.
changed changes far found good happy medium running top trying
I don't like the package, but we haven't found an alternative. They've changed and changed and changed over the years, and we're about out of changes as far as trying to find a happy medium of being able to get where we're not running over the top of each other but yet put on a good show.
glad ready
I'm glad it's over with and I'm ready to go to Richmond,
american-celebrity driver finishing front judge puzzling racing top wins
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.
great knew relationships
He and I had a really great working relationship. He knew what he wanted and he knew what we had accomplished. He wanted to be with us and we wanted him to be there.