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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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When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.
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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
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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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Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.
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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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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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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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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
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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're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
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Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
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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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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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The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
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