Background
Dale Earnhardt was born on the 29th of April, 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA. His father Ralph Earnhardt was a well-known racecar driver. [http://www.biography.com/people/dale-earnhardt-9542044]
Dale Earnhardt was born on the 29th of April, 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA. His father Ralph Earnhardt was a well-known racecar driver. [http://www.biography.com/people/dale-earnhardt-9542044]
He dropped out of school in the ninth grade.
Over the course of his driving career, Earnhardt entered 676 Winston Cup races, won 76 of them, and amassed more than $40 million in prize money. He was also a four-time winner of the International Race of Champions series (1990, 1995, 1999, 2000).
1979 - Named National Society for Stock Car Racing Rookie of the Year, 1980, 1986-87, 1990-91, 1993-94 - Winston Cup winner, 1986 - Shatters the track speed record at the Atlanta Journal 500, 1994 -Ties Richard Petty for most Winston Cup championships, 1995 - Wins the International Race of Champions series, 1998 - Wins the Daytona 500.
[http://sports.jrank.org/pages/1300/Earnhardt-Dale-Sr-Awards-Accomplishments.html]
Quotations:
"You win some, lose some, and wreck some."
“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”
“You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. That’s competition.”
“Second Place is just the first place loser.”
“God created bumpers and… bumpers were made for bumping!”
I didn’t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I’d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I’m not sure I’d want him to be a lawyer.
I taught you everything you know but I didn’t teach you everything I know.
"Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass."
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
Anything but first sucks!
There is only one lap you want to lead, and that's the last lap.
What makes the Monte Carlo so good? ME!
I'll apologize to them after they get me to the front!
[https://sites.google.com/site/allmyfavoritequotes/nascar-quotes/dale-earnhardt-sr-quotes]
In contrast with his image as a hardnosed competitor on the track, off the track he was known to his friends as someone who was charitable and generous, but usually kept that side of himself hidden from the rest of the world.
[http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Dale_Earnhardt]
He was 3 times married and had 4 children.
Ralph Lee Earnhardt was born February 23, 1928, in Kannapolis North Carolina. Ralph Earnhardt passed away, from a heart attack, on September 26, 1973, at the age of 45.
[http://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/Hall-of-Fame-Members/Bio.aspx?q=Ralph%20Earnhardt]
She was the 15 of July in 1930.
Dale Earnhardt married Latane Brown in 1968. They had a son together named Kerry who was born the following year in 1969. Dale Sr and Latane then got a divorce in 1970 soon after the birth of Kerry. [http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]
In 1971 Dale married his second wife Brenda Gee. Together they had a daughter named Kelly King in 1972 and a son named Ralph Dale Earnardt Jr in 1974. Soon after Dale Jr was born Dale Sr and Brenda got a divorce.
[http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]
in 1982 Dale married his 3rd and last wife Teresa Houston (Now Teresa Earnhardt). Together they had a daughter Taylor Nicole in 1988.
[http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/dale-earnhardts-wife-ex-wife-and-ex-wife/]
He was born on the 8th of December, 1969. His mother Latane Brown was Dale Earnhardt's first wife.
She was born on the 28th of August in 1972. Her mother Brenda Gee was Dale Earnhardt's second wife.
He was on the 10th of October, 1974. His mother Brenda Gee was Dale Earnhardt's second wife.
She was in 1988. Her mother Teresa Houston was Dale Earnhardt's third and last wife
