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.
MARIO ANDRETTII wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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My wife loves football, but I think she’s resigned to the fact that I’ll never make it there.
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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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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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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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I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep.
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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
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I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
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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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Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
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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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It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken.
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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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