I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
MARIO ANDRETTIWhen a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal .
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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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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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The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career – either in stock cars or IndyCar – and he won’t need a passport.
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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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I love technology – yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I’m all for new technology.
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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
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There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply.
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Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.
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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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