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
car trying battle
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
rattle trying wreck
I wasn't trying to wreck him, I just wanted to rattle his cage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
glad ready
I'm glad it's over with and I'm ready to go to Richmond,
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.
bigger cave club fighting guy longer start thats woman
You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. Thats competition.
car fastest lose refuses winner
the winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose
team race together
The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.
wife car want
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
inspirational fathers-day growing-up
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
self-esteem matter pieces
I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.