Dale Earnhardt Jr. Quotes

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

I feel gifted for having the opportunity to compete in Daytona.

If I ever won the Indy 500, I can tell you that I wouldn't worry about my engine, that's for sure.

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

Once you have won a title, you want more and more of these experiences, of those emotions.

Charlotte is a place I always enjoy racing.

I felt I had 'made it' as a model when I was invited to be the first model to shoot for the 2019 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit issue.

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

Being under the lights makes any race track that much better.

I am dreaming of winning the treble again. I will never forget how I felt after winning it in 2012-13. It was like we were flying. It's a great feeling, it's utter madness. I definitely want to have that feeling again at some stage of my career.

Whether you're Michael Waltrip or Jeff Gordon or Richard Petty, you can't be the Daytona 500 champion without it having an impact on people around you. When I say that, I mean the race fans. They want to congratulate you for winning the biggest race of the year. It has changed people's perception of me.

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I can. That's what being a race car driver is all about and that's why I do what I do.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

Winning a championship, really - that's the main goal, so if you don't do that then you can't really say that you succeeded.

You play to win a ring.