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What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

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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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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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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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Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
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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.
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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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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
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The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
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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 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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Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning they are well informed.
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The passport changes but the blood doesn't
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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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A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
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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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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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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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I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.
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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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Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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