Not So Famous Racing Quotes

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1999--Earnhardt back to pit when warned he was hurting his tires and told to save them during an early race charge- "I'll apologize to them after they get me to the front!"

There no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 mph and suddenly getting hit from the rear----Darrell Waltrip

"I got in the ambulance and looked back over there and I said 'Man, the wheels ain't knocked off that car yet ... Get out. I gotta go'." -Dale Earnhardt, 1997

I hope my boys make good in racing cause they'll starve to death if they don't---George Elliott(Bill and Ernies and Dans father.)

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal--Kye Petty

Second Place is just the first loser-Dale Earnhardt

"It's like when your girlfriend breaks up with you, she has to tell all her girlfriends about what's going to happen, but you don't know. That's the way it is here." Kenny Irwin discussing how the driver is always the last to know he's being replaced.

"I came to a race and a rodeo broke out. That's all I've got to say." Jimmy Spencer on the roughness of the qualifying laps at Daytona.

"Everybody else got by us, but that cue-bald-headed fool can't get by us without wrecking us." Dale Earnhardt, Jr. referring to the follicle-challenged Todd Bodine

"The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one." Junior Johnson

Drivin a race car is like dancing with a chain saw." Cale Yarborough

There is only one lap you want to lead, and that's the last lap. Ralph Earnhardt's advice to Dale.

"Those boys playing football get their $2 or $3 million up front, and if they don't have a good day, they are not out anything. They still get paid on Monday. If we don't win, we don't get paid on Monday." Richard Petty

Well, he lived in the northern end of the house and I lived in the southern end." Ward Burton on how he and brother, Jeff have such different accents

"Don't hit him! I know you can hear me, and NASCAR said that they are watching you." Ty Norris trying to talk Dale Earnhardt, Jr out of hitting Kurt Busch after Busch had wrecked the #8 earlier "You're breaking up man. I still can't hear you." Dale Earnhardt, Jr's reply