Ralph Dale Earnhardt (1951–2001) was an American stock car driver. He was the most significant driver in NASCAR history. He raced professionally and set many records from 1979 until his fatal accident during the 2001 Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt Jr. His son Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (b.1974,) known professionally as Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Dale Jr., was also a successful professional stock car racing driver and is currently a team owner, and an analyst for NASCAR on NBC.
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You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.
—Dale Earnhardt
All that’s behind us. But now they want to know how it feels not to have that question asked. Now they can go along and bug Terry Labonte and Rusty Wallace and some of these other guys who haven’t won it. It’s definitely special to win the Daytona 500. Now when Darrell (Waltrip) and me are sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch when we’re both about 70, he can’t say, ‘I won it and you didn’t’.
—Dale Earnhardt
You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
—Dale Earnhardt
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