Dale Earnhardt Race Quotations

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

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.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

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.

When I first started running here, I didn't get around the place very good. It was just a real hot, slick race track for me. I don't know what happened, but we showed up one week and this thing was just really, really fast and we've been fast ever since. So it's something in the car or in the set-up of the car that Tony Jr. found -- maybe at a test at Richmond or somewhere -- that has helped us here. That's really how we won those races and turned it around from the first races we had here. So that has a lot to do with it.

To think anybody could come from as far back in the field as we were and win this race is beyond me. You saw it. I couldn't believe it.

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.