My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
MARIO ANDRETTIAs 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.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
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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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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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I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.
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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?
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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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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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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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There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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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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