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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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Failure is sucess if we learn from it.
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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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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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If things don't seem out of control, you're not going fast enough.
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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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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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I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.
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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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Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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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 can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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