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 ANDRETTII think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.
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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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It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken.
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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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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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Age doesn’t affect driving – how do you like that?
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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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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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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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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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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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A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against.
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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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