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The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.

Mario Andretti

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Mario Andretti
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 28
Formula One Driver
Nascar Driver
Racing Automobile Driver
Mario Gabriele Andretti
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From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.
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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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The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
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What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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Young drivers are supposed to be hard on equipment. That's how you learn.
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In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.
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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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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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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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I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.
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It takes a lifetime to build tradition.
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The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. 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.
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I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.
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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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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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Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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