Dale Earnhardt Jr. Quotes

	"If you ain't first your last"....oh, sorry, that was Ricky Bobby!
	“That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.”
	“I'm just going to keep driving and have a good time doing it.”
	“I look for hot chicks in tube tops. You know, you people-watch a lot. You talk to your crew to look busy. You look at people's cars.”
	“I'm surprised. I bet you all are surprised. That's the way it goes.”
	“The 48 [Johnson] ran into the 38 [Sadler] and I ran into them. That was an accident and accidents happen. We're all together so it's hard to miss something when you're going so fast. You can turn left, but the car is still going straight. It's just frustrating.”
	"They defend everything we believe in. It's very important that the troops know that all Americans support them. And although their job may be difficult, they've got a lot of people behind them.”
	“It's been a long week.”
	“Fame is a lot of fun. Fame gets you to boxing matches, football games and cool stuff.”
	“I cried a little bit in the race car on the way to the checkered flag. Well, maybe not cried, but at least my eyes watered up.”
	"We'll find something else to run into each other with if it ain't the front bumper.”
	“I really think that'll happen. I've informally talked to Richard (Childress), just so he knew I wanted to do that. I'll drive the No. 3 car toward the end of my career if I've done what I wanted to do at DEI, and that's win championships and win races. And I'll stick around as long as it takes to do it.”
	“It comes down to knowing what you are doing out there. There are guys there, not naming any names, but there are guys you don't wan to get bump-drafted by. And there are guys that you love to see in your rearview mirror.”
	"Guys get caught cheating all the time. Cheating is nothing new in the garage.”
	“When he was around, man, you knew he was there. That was tough . . . I miss him a lot.”
	“I was trying my hardest to follow all the rules.”
	“It's kind of like heat racing. Gives you an idea about your competition going into the 500. I think anytime you line us up, we're going to go for it. I think the qualifying deal, the rules they have now, it takes a little bit away from what it means other than to win it.”
	“In a situation like that ... no matter how great a relationship he has with a driver, the less people that know about it, the better.”
	“I think what Chad did is nothing new in the garage.”
	“They can change the bumpers and stuff and we'll still run into each other because that's what we do.”
	“We had enough race car, just not enough time. We might have been able to make a stab at the 38 [Sadler] there. We just didn't have enough laps.”
	“If you're cheating, the less people know about it, the better. You're not going to tell your driver. At least I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell anybody.”
	“That is what they pay us the big money for.”
	“I'm focused on the season and winning races, so I'm not interested in a stunt like this.”
	“We had enough race car, just not enough time. We started off tight, and we've been fighting it in our practices. We still have some work to do on it.”
	“Don't seem like five years. You know, it's good that he's still on people's minds, people still miss him.”
	“It'd be fun if we could run farther apart, but that's not going to sell many tickets.”
	“I miss him a lot. And the sport misses him a lot.”
	“I'm hungry, our whole team's hungry. I want to get off to a fast start and prove to the fans and everybody that this team's strong.”
	“You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your success, and last year I learned a lot. That was an unfortunate season but maybe I needed to experience it to get back mentally to where I need to be.”
	“Working with Tony Jr. is going to be a lot of fun, there's a good, close bond there.”
	“We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.”
	“It's been a long week. We're just happy to come out of here. A lot of guys weren't so fortunate. We're happy with a top 10.”
	“This was a good start for our team.”
	"We fought a push all day. Even on that last lap, I went to the outside of the 38 [Sadler], got a real big push and had to back up.”
	“I can live with myself knowing I at least tried to win rather than stay in line. We're real happy to come out of here with a top 10.”
	“We came down here and ran great. That's all I wanted to do.”
	“I knew nobody would go with me on the outside, but it was the only chance we had to win. I'm not here to run fifth or eighth or whatever we finished.”
	“I think it's best left in the driver's hands and the crew's hands on how they handle this issue. I don't think NASCAR can step in and make any improvements. They'll probably make the situation a whole lot worse for all of us anyway.”
	“It, obviously, doesn't seem like five years. You know, it's good that he's still on people's minds. People still miss him. I still like to see the [No.]3 stickers in the back of everybody's pickup truck and stuff like that.”
	“It's pretty hard to figure out what is going on with that team, especially with the talent behind the wheel. He's just always been the one guy who could flip a switch and get going when he needed to.”