Dated Quotes

"It's a kind of a verbal agreement. He tells me what to do, and I do it." -speaking of the driver/owner relationship and no formal contract with Dale Earnhardt Sr., 1998

"The crews done gone with my car, my dad's left on the jet, and I'm just standing there with a bunch of hats." - Richmond 2000

"It must be the spicy cheese dip. My insides are about to boil over like an overheating radiator" - Richmond 2000

"Y'all shoulda seen me getting' onto pit road that time.Whooo! That was Sammy Swindell all the way!" -- Entering pit road at a rather fast rate of speed and sliding the car sideways as if it were a sprint car at the 2000 Winston

“I ran into everything except the hot dog stand since I like them.” - Martinsville 2000

"Hey Joey, If theres a big crash in front of me just say WHOA a bunch of times" - 2000

"I am not riding that thing" -- Dale Jr. talking about the motorized bar stool, 2000

"Let me emphasize...big curves" - Driver #8, 2000

"I felt like I was rescued from a deserted island. After that race I was just wide open, wanting to hug everybody. It really got me back to normal." - 2001 Pepsi 400

"He needs to pay attention because he don't know what he's Doing" -- reference to Robby Gordon, 2002 Sharpie 500

"That shit don't happen everyday...." -- Dale Jr. to Ryan Newman after the 2002 Winston

"He's a natural.You could dump snow out here and he'd probably get around here better than any of us." - Dale Jr. on Tony Stewart, 2004 24 Hours of Daytona

"Good God I am the Daytona 500 Champion" - 2004 Daytona 500

"I say we sell this car....OK?” - 2004 Las Vegas

“It’s Bristol Baby!” - Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2004 Sharpie 500

"To win at Bristol, let alone sweep races at Bristol, it's awesome. I came to a lot of races here when my dad drove them. He made this place magical if you're an Earnhardt fan, and me being one of 'em. I might not have done it like he did it, but that was pretty damn close. He had some great races here. That's why this place is so magical to me. Good Lord. What a great day!" -2004 Sharpie 500

"IT DON'T MEAN SHIT RIGHT NOW!!!!" - Dale Earnhardt Jr., Talladega Fall 2004 (x2)

“He may grow up, but he'll never mature.” - Steve Hmiel on Dale Jr, Chicagoland 2005

“You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your success, and last year I learned a lot. That was an unfortunate season but maybe I needed to experience it to get back mentally to where I need to be.” Following the 2005 Season

"Don't cuss a man for trying" - Stiffy, Talladega Spring 2006

“That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.” - Richmond Fall 2006

"I pushed Jeff Gordon into the lead five freaking times. And every time I do that he complains that I'm bump-drafting in the corners. I'm just not going to push him anymore." - Talladega Fall 2006.

"What were we, 20 cars ahead? If I wouldn't have stopped ain't no telling how far ahead we would have gotten. But if I pushed him away he would come back to me and I would come back to the rest of the field. If I held it, which I could have but I was nervous they were going to black-flag me, we could have drove away from the field." - Talladega Fall 2006

"Every time I help him out he never gives it back in the turn. That's why he don't have too many friends out there. I was trying to be his only friend besides his teammate to draft with him. When it comes to drafting, there ain't anybody that does it any better. Everybody wants to be in front of that 8 car when it's time to go." - Jr. on Jeff Gordon, Talladega Fall 2006

"There's so much grip my mom could drive these cars. There wasn't no way I was going to spin nobody out. I guess it made Jeff Gordon a little nervous." - Talladega Fall 2006

“I'm not gonna send our cowboy back out there to get hurt. We need him healthy for the rest of these rodeos.” - Tony Eury Jr., Charlotte 2006

"We have to do better than that as a team if we want to win this championship. People have taken shots at me saying I don't care about winning, but I can tell you nobody else wants to win more when I'm in that race car. We tried hard, really hard - the whole team did - and Tony (crew chief) Eury Jr. tried a lot of changes to make the car handle, but trying hard isn't going to do it. I am proud of the effort, but we didn't do our best. I have so much confidence in this team, and I think if we do our best, we'll be right there at the end of the year. We're way better than we showed today.” -Atlanta Fall(?) 2006

"Whoa, is this where we do a 40-yard dash through the archery range?" - 2007 Bud Shootout

JR MOTORSPORTS GRAND OPENING --> APRIL 2007

"To be successful you have to be respected. To get respect you have to go out and get the job done."

"One of the things we have been able to maintain throughout the beginning of our company was this trust factor. Obviously, working with my sister there is a huge trust factor. So you try to seek that out in all of your employees. You try to build that friendship so that the trust factor grows and you can lean on each other throughout the year. That's really probably the most important part of our company, what helps us stay successful, is being able to lean on each other like we do."

"We decided not to go the traditional route and see how much success we could have trying to sell more mainstream gear. Obviously, you've got to be a fan to want to wear that. Regardless of how you paint it up, it's got my name on it. But me and Kelley talked for years about how some of the merchandise from years past was kind of gaudy and a little over the top. Here, there's a demographic for everybody."

"When it comes to doing business, I think I know everything but Kelley surprises me sometimes. She sort of paints me a new picture and makes a whole lot more sense of it."

"Well, I hope I'm tenacious (def: presistant). To be effective in the business model that you have in motorsports today you have to be very tenacious. We have to have bridges and friendships and relationships throughout the motorsports family. To be successful you have to be respected. To get respect you have to go out and get the job done."

"I never said that wasn't an option in the past. It was just so far down the road it was ridiculous to think about it. But we're getting closer and closer to something like that being a reality."

"As a company, we haven't had to pull the reins too many times. We've really let this thing kind of take off and do its own thing within reality financially and technically with the people and whatnot. But it's grown, and it's grown quickly."

"No matter what happens, my guys will be tough." - Tony Jr., Darlington 2007

"No offense to Tony Gibson - he's done more than what was expected or asked of him but I sure as hell miss Tony Jr. I'm just used to working with him. I need him." - June 2007

RANDOM QUOTES

“Fame is a lot of fun. Fame gets you to boxing matches, football games and cool stuff.”

When he was around, man, you knew he was there. That was tough . . . I miss him a lot.”

"Let me tell you a story about that--about how I am with my money. When I was racing at Myrtle Beach, I started dating this girl down there, and everybody down there was driving big Chevy pickups, and I've got this little red S-10 pickup. I'm figuring if I'm going to impress her, I've got to have one of those like everybody else does. Well, I took the truck down to the dealer to have some brake work done, and I saw this big Chevy. Remember, I'm paying $100 a month for my truck, and the dealership's paying me $200 a week, but I went out and bought this big ol' truck, and I'm stuck with a $340-a-month payment. I drove that truck for about three months and realized, man, this is too expensive. I don't give a damn whether this girl likes it or not--she's got to like me for me. I can't afford this.' I sold that truck for $16,000, paid off the $14,000 I owed on it, and bought an '86 S-10 that was six years older than the one I had had to begin with. I drove that thing for four years and saved every dime I had."

“Some people give Chad a bad label, but I give him credit because he's at the top right now. Week in and week out he's got that 48 in front. Most teams go up and down, but not Chad and Jimmie. They've come a long way together." - Tony Eury Jr.

"The f***ing steering wheel is on up-side down!!!!! MOTHER F***er!!!!!!!"

"Does anyone know what that means?? Can a gauge just break??"

"Hey.....It's back up to 12, thats one more than 11."

“Ahhh I wouldn't have ran him over" -- Refering to the woodchuck that ran in front of him at WG

"People were backin' into the front of my car all day long..."

"I've never worried about my mistakes. I just looked forward to the chance to redeem them."

"Go with your gut and remember your mistakes"

"Nah, I wasn't mad at you, but after that shit happens, you can get yerself a bottle of Powerade and relax..but I'm still out there strapped into that hot race car.”

"Oh I was supposed to come in the pits? I'll come in next time if that's cool." --Suddenly realizing he has passed the entrance to pit lane @ the Daytona 500

"I've always said that, when I'm an old man, I'm going to bore my grandkids to death with racing stories, and I'll tell them once a week how I shocked everybody my rookie year by winning the Texas race. They'll probably be, like, You told us that yesterday."

"I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya." - Bristol

"Each week I just try to focus on a top-10 finish. It's hard, and I try not to worry about where anybody else is on the track. You just get what you can get."

"This is where we start to climb back up the hill. Hopefully in two or three years we can be proud of ourselves and what we've been able to accomplish." -being reunited with cousin Tony Jr

"The purpose of life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely with a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out shouting, 'Holy shit, what a ride!"