Normally, on the rare chance that a celebrity comes to my property, I get real nervous.

My grandmother was a big Elvis fan, and I am, too, because she played Elvis, and she would keep me all the time when my dad was out of town.

There was this guy I used to work with, and he listened to Patsy Cline all the time, so I liked that after a while.

People get surprised when they see you out buying a DVD at Best Buy like somebody else should be doing it for you or something! They're like, 'What are you doing your grocery shopping for?' Well, 'cause I'm starving!

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

I went from thinking, 'I wonder if I can be a broadcaster. Will anybody give me a chance? Maybe I can get a shot at it,' to thinking, 'Man, I want to do this for a long time.'

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I've done everything I ever thought I would do. I've done more than I thought I was capable of doing.

Death is a weird thing.

That's one thing that frustrates me is to hear people today say I don't have passion; my heart's not in it. Man, what the hell? You can't go to 38 races in 42 weeks with your heart out of it.

There's broadcasters that make me enjoy what I'm seeing because of their energy and how they explain what's happening and paint that picture.

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.

The 1979 Daytona 500 was awesome. It was almost like the first race that Ken Squier ever did. And so he was sort of introducing himself as well as the sport.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

I've been able to make a lot of money and live a lifestyle that I never dreamed of. And I've been able to provide for my family.

I never thought I would ever win a Daytona 500. I never thought we would sweep Bristol. I just never thought any of that stuff was going to happen or be possible.

To me, I feel completely, um, utterly normal. I do everything everybody else does.

I'm competitive, man. Competitive.

I can cook anything. Anything. I'm good.

If I don't like the car, I don't get excited about racing it.

Orange is my favorite color overall.

Regardless of how I act, somebody is going to criticize me one way or the other.

I don't know of any other driver on the track that doesn't get hot under the collar.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

Every sport has a 'guy' that personifies what the sport is about and almost creates what the sport is on his own.

I am proud of the Earnhardt name, but it don't stand alone. You know, it's part of the sport, with all those other historic people that have been a part of it, and you don't want people to forget the part you had in it and what you did and the contributions you made and the sacrifices you made.

For the longest time, I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business.

That's something that is important to me, that people know me and understand me.

All these tracks you have memories at, all of them, Daytona included.

I want to continue to be a part of the sport, and not just as an owner in the Nascar Xfinity Series. I want to be a valuable asset to the growth of the sport and continue to help raise the bar and raise the awareness of the sport and promote the sport as much as I can.

When I was a kid, one thing I counted on was rushing home from church to catch the start of the race. There's something really awesome about that routine.

I've been with some great teams and had good wins and great success at certain periods of time in my career.

I always think about my dad. He's always in the back of my mind. That helps me make good decisions. It has an influence on my life in every decision and everything I do.

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

I love running good because it meets expectations, whether it's the fans' or my own. And I know that they come to be entertained: they pull for a particular driver to be entertained by that driver's success and that driver's personality, and they relate to that individual.

When I run a race, I, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, concern myself with whether the fan was entertained or got what he expected or whether they got what I think they deserved out of me and out of the race.

I would give up barbecuing for a championship.

I would have loved to race from 1970 to 1980.

The Dodge Charger in the late '70s at Daytona, that looked like an awesome car.

I always liked 'The Last American Hero,' the one about Junior Johnson with Jeff Bridges in it.

I used to have stomach ulcers and stuff when I was in the 10th grade. I'd be doubled over on the floor, I was hurting so bad. I was on Tagamet before it was over the counter.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

I use my notes app on my iPhone religiously, and I have one note just for movies. Every time I see a movie I think I'm going to want to watch, I'll put it in there.

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.

I wish I'd a got married sooner. I wish I'd a had kids sooner. I wish I'd a figured all that out sooner.

John Madden, I always thought, was awesome.

I like Joe Buck. I know there's a big divide on people that like Joe Buck and people that don't like Joe Buck. But I love his cadence and tone and professionalism, and he's smart.