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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti

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Mario Andretti
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 28
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There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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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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Failure is sucess if we learn from it.
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Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
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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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Young drivers are supposed to be hard on equipment. That's how you learn.
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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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The experts or the cynics say, Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids. You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.
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My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.
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I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.
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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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Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong
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If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.
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It takes a lifetime to build tradition.
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But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or  what?
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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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Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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