Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
MARIO ANDRETTII wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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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’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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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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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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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
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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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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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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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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?
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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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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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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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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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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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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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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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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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Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.
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