I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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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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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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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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You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
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You dream what you’re supposed to do.
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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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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.
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If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.
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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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