Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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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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From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.
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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 want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
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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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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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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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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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There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply.
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My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
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Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.
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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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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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You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
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