Dale Earnhardt Jr.

“I use my notes app on my iPhone religiously, and I have one note just for movies. Every time I see a movie I think I'm going to want to watch, I'll put it in there.”

“I think that any time you share a secret, you're a little nervous about people's reaction to it.”

“I've been with some great teams and had good wins and great success at certain periods of time in my career.”

“I wish I'd a got married sooner. I wish I'd a had kids sooner. I wish I'd a figured all that out sooner.”

“I always liked 'The Last American Hero,' the one about Junior Johnson with Jeff Bridges in it.”

“I don't like going on stage. Stages mean 'nervous' for me.”

“There was this guy I used to work with, and he listened to Patsy Cline all the time, so I liked that after a while.”

“I always thought, if I wasn't racing, one of my dream jobs would be as a scout, going town to town and trying to find bands in all these little dive bars. That would be so much fun, discovering music that way as opposed to from your phone.”

“I'm sure it's the same whether you lost your parent at 25 or 45. When they die, the responsibility to do right by them and honor them becomes more important to you, because they're not here to tell you, 'Hey man, don't be doing that,' or, 'Yeah, you're making me proud, or you're not.'”

“As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.”

“My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.”

“I enjoy learning how to cook because I like to eat. Eating is good. Eating is fun.”

“I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.”

“All these tracks you have memories at, all of them, Daytona included.”

“I didn't start driving race cars because of the fame or the money, but the most rewarding factor is being complimented on what you do, and your fans are always the first to do that.”

“When I run a race, I, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, concern myself with whether the fan was entertained or got what he expected or whether they got what I think they deserved out of me and out of the race.”

“Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.”

“I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.”

“I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?”

“My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.”