I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
MARIO ANDRETTIIn the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it’s a fact.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.
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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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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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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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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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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
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A commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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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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Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.
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When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.
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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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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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You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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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’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
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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 look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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