The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
MARIO ANDRETTII’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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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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Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
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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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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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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
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You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
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You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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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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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.
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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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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.
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At Andretti Winery, I’m not the winemaker.
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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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Let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don’t force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you’re correct.
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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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But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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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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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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I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
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