My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
MARIO ANDRETTIYou do the best you can with what’s thrown at you, then you try again.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
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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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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
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Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.
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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 don’t remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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.
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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 like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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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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