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.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
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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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A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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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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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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I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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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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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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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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Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
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And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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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 love all motor sports at the top level.
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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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We always had a relationship, but what’s important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.
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There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply.
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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 do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
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