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

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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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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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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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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If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.
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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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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 will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.
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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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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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Young drivers are supposed to be hard on equipment. That's how you learn.
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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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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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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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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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You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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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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You dream what you're supposed to do
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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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