If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
MARIO ANDRETTINot all teammates tell the truth.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that’s really what it feels like.
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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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If you weren’t on Chris Economaki’s radar screen, you probably weren’t on anybody’s.
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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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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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Not all teammates tell the truth.
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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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When a car’s ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR.
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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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You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
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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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Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
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The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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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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