You’ve got to have friends out there. You can’t do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
MARIO ANDRETTIWhenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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In 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.
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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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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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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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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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I always say that every win has something that is special.
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At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.
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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 father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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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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Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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