Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.
MARIO ANDRETTIYou’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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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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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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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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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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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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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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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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Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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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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Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.
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