You do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
MARIO ANDRETTIQuite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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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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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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I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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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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Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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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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Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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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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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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