If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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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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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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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
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I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.
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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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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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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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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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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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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’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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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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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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A commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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