Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
MARIO ANDRETTIThere’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it’s time to get out of racing.
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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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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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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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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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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 should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe.
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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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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.
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Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like 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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At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.
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All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on.
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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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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 lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros.
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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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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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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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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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I don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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