Whenever you’re aggressive, you’re at the edge of mistakes.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you.
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I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.
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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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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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If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable.
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My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
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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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Unfortunately, we don’t educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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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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Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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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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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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Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
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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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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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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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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 look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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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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Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.
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