Dale Earnhardt Jr.

“My grandmother was a big Elvis fan, and I am, too, because she played Elvis, and she would keep me all the time when my dad was out of town.”

“I know a lot of Cup Series champions, and they each have a very different personality. They all go about handling adversity, their challenges, and even confrontation a little differently.”

“If I were to finish my career without a title, I would certainly be disappointed. But I don't think it would be something that would eat away at me... I think I certainly would be able to live with it.”

“Me and my dad never talked racing. We just didn't. I wouldn't go up and ask him about that unless I wanted to upset him.”

“I'm a big fan of music. I need to be listening to music most of the time during the day.”

“I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.”

“Normally, on the rare chance that a celebrity comes to my property, I get real nervous.”

“When I was a kid, one thing I counted on was rushing home from church to catch the start of the race. There's something really awesome about that routine.”

“Nothing will ever feel like winning a Daytona 500. I'm never going to do anything in broadcasting, probably anything in any other professional job that will feel like winning the Daytona 500.”

“I don't think any of us knew the dangers of repeated concussions or the fact that even when you got a concussion, the idea to go get treatment for it never entered our minds. We just didn't have - we weren't educated enough. We were really ignorant to it. I would get concussions in my early 20s racing, and it was a bit of a badge of honor.”

“I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.”

“I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.”

“That's something that is important to me, that people know me and understand me.”

“I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.”

“In my eyes, Joe Gibbs could do no wrong.”

“Winning the championship is more than 50% driver. It's probably 60% driver, 40% car. I don't really know where luck fits in there - over the course of a season, everybody catches their breaks.”

“I would have loved to race from 1970 to 1980.”

“If I don't like the car, I don't get excited about racing it.”

“I hate disappointing people and letting people down.”

“Every sport has a 'guy' that personifies what the sport is about and almost creates what the sport is on his own.”