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"Dad taught me the most. He was the kind of guy that .... you knew he loved you, but ... he was a strong person ... he didn't say that. He didn't say he loved you all the time. He didn't have to."

"I focus and give everything I can to the driving of the No. 3 car. That had better be the priority in life. I probably couldn't do nothing if I didn't believe (in God) and have all my priorities in order."

"If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come out here and grumble about going too fast."

"I'm a big fan of Richard Petty. If I win seven, it wouldn't matter because he's still the king. He's way up there on a throne by himself, but it does put us in an elite class, right there with the king."

"I try to tell my kids, Dale Jr., Kerry and Kelley, I love them. I make sure I say it because maybe I didn't hear it enough. But I knew he loved us. I could tell by the way he provided for us and the things he did for me when I was a child."

"Junior -- he's just another driver. Yeah, I'm proud of him, but on the track, he's just another competitor."

"You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones."

"Dale Earnhardt was the greatest race car driver that ever lived. He could do things with a race car that no one else could. He had a tremendous impact on NASCAR racing. He's done so much to help the sport get where it is today. He took the sport to new places. It's going to be hard for anyone else to take it there. He leaves a big, big void here that will be very hard to fill." - Ned Jarrett

"Even after I quit racing, him and I stayed friends. Every Christmas morning my phone would ring, and it'd be Dale calling me, saying 'Bouchard, what are you doing?'" - Ron Bouchard

"He was a rough racecar driver, yeah -- and when he raced, he raced hard. But as far as a person, he'd give you the shirt off his back and he was just always a great friend." - Ron Bouchard

"I always think about him [because] we had so many good times together. If you knew him -- I think some people thought he was a ruffian redneck, but he was certainly not that." - Ron Bouchard

"It doesn't matter what it is, he doesn't like to lose. He just has a competitive nature. When you get down to the last 50 laps of a race, he knows how to dig deeper than any driver I know to make things happen. Dale's as focused on that race car right now as he was 10 years ago. He wants to win races, and he wants that eighth championship. He knows if we keep trying and working as hard as we did last year, and he keeps his focus, that it will happen." - Richard Childress

It didn't matter what I had accomplished in sports cars or Indy cars -- I think all drivers looked up to Earnhardt for his accomplishments, for his tenacity, for his willingness to help other drivers -- either directly or indirectly, and that list is among the top of the top." - Scott Wimmer

"I went hunting with Dale and spent some time on his ranch in North Carolina. He was just a good guy, and I was lucky enough to see that side of him and fortunate enough to call him a friend, because away from the racetrack he was really a different person -- very cool." - Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

"Racing misses him and I know we always will, because we were great friends." - Ron Bouchard

"We had a lot of fun together -- a lot of great times. He was a great guy and a great friend and I tell you, I miss him dearly every time I come to these racetracks." - Ron Bouchard