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Quoted on Davey Allison -
Richard Petty "The King" -"I was impressed with him from the start"
Neil Bonnett - "He had his father's determination. Bobby would make him do things he didn't always want to do, make him do something the hard way instead of handing it to him. I think that a lot of time Davey questioned that, but after he got to a certain level, he knew the way Bobby had shown him was the right way. And he appreciated that."
Rusty Wallace - "Me and that kid, we raced all over the country. I knew him when he was just a little punk growing up, just something you wanted to swat away."
Kyle Petty - "Davey and I shared a lot of memories, of race tracks and hanging out at beaches and traveling around the country with our parents. The bond was there because he knew where I came from and I knew where he came from. So we were like first cousins."
Ernie Irvan - "Davey and I had our run-ins, but I'm glad that we hadn't had any in awhile, and we were getting along really good. You start to realize everybody's human, and everybody gets stirred up sometimes. We're all competitors, but we all care about each other."
Jimmy Spencer - "The biggest thing I can say about Davey is that he was just a friendly person. He'd be real friendly with you, and then you'd both get out on the race track and try to win. Davey was always giving it 100 percent."
Michael Kranefuss - "Racers can be very, very narrow-minded and one-way-minded and there was an openess in Davey that you wouldn't see in too many people of that caliber."
Dale Earnhardt - "He was a tough little competitor right out of the mold of all the Allisons. We ran really hard and had some good races together."
Dale Jarrett - "My biggest memories are of Davey Allison the person, always smiling, always joking, always having time for everybody, especially the kids."
Geoffrey Bodine - "Davey, it appeared to me had really gotten his life in order. He had a beautiful family, a beautiful wife, beautiful kids, and I know he really enjoyed that."
Larry McReynolds - "He
had just as positive an attitude as you could ever imagine. And when
you've got a driver with that kind of attitude, there's no way you or your
team can get down. That was Davey."
