Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
MARIO ANDRETTIWhat I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.
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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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We always had a relationship, but what’s important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.
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It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken.
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If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.
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A commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.
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I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
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The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’
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I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.
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If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
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As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.
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Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
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