Here are a few of my favorite quotes….
Feel free to e-mail me with your favorite quote, I'd be happy to add it!!
The quotes are in no particular order…
"Some people wrote me off for dead, but they didn't throw enough dirt on me I guess." Darrell Waltrip, Pocono International Raceway, June 21, 1998
"I've never seen so many torn-up race cars in one weekend. They had a massacre down here somewhere. I forget what it was called…Oh, yeah, the Alamo. This is about like the Alamo, and I don't know who's going to win." Darrell Waltrip, Texas Motor Speedway, April, 98
"It hurt so good." Dale Earnhardt, after winning the pole at Watkins Glen, August, 96 (13 days after his crash at Talladega)
"I broke my sternum in a midget in 1982, and I can tell you, I wanted them to shoot me. He's the man. Until you can do what he does, you're second. He makes a statement, and that's it. Right now the rest of us, as far as I'm concerned, are wannabes." Ray Evernham, Watkins Glen, August, 96
"My contract reads that I'll drive for Roush until the cows come home, or something to that effect." Mark Martin, April 98
"I never hit anybody out of malice or recklessness......unless they bumped me twice." Tim Flock
"If racing were completely safe, everyone would do it and it wouldn't be a sport." Tim Flock
"I stood up for what I believed in...being my own man, my own person. I am proud to have promoted the idea that going for the most money is not always the best route; what will make you the happiest is. If you become what you set out to become, you will acquire everythin you need or want in the process." Alan Kulwicki
"He won the Daytona 500. He really shouldn't say anything the rest of the damn year." Rusty Wallace concerning Dale Earnhardt's bad mood in Vegas
"This is kind of like going to a wedding and the bride doesn't stand up." Jeremy Mayfield, after Atlanta Primestar 500 was rained out and post-poned a day
"These guys, after that first practice, they had changed so much I said, 'Change the driver. That's the only thing we haven't changed'." Bobby Labonte, Las Vegas
"Momma would put me in the seat of the go-car, fasten the seat belt, fire it up, and I'd just go around in circles 'til I ran out of gas." Ken Schrader
"A hundred laps ain't no big deal. It's easier to stay awake laying on the couch." Ken Schrader, after Dover was shortened 100 miles
"I got my boat out for the first time since Neil (Bonnett) died... That was tough to do because he was the last one to fish on that boat...Losing my dad and Neil both really hurt." Dale Earnhardt, August '96
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