Mario Andretti Quotes

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Mario Andretti

Profession : Driver

Birth : February 28, 1940

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

Mario Andretti

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Mario Andretti

From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.

Mario Andretti

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

Mario Andretti

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

Mario Andretti

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

Mario Andretti

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

Mario Andretti

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Mario Andretti

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.

Mario Andretti

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.

Mario Andretti

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Mario Andretti

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

Mario Andretti

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Mario Andretti

My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.

Mario Andretti

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

Mario Andretti

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.

Mario Andretti

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.

Mario Andretti

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

Mario Andretti

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.

Mario Andretti