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).
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.