Quotes by Mario Andretti

About Mario Andretti:

Mario Gabriele Andretti is a retired Italian American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, and sprint cars. During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four IndyCar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits.
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You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you - let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don't force them pass in the right lane and zig zag,...

Mario Andretti

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Mario Andretti

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.

Mario Andretti

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

Mario Andretti

You dream what you're supposed to do.

Mario Andretti

I don't want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

Mario Andretti

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.

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

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

As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Mario Andretti

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

Mario Andretti

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

Mario Andretti

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.

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 always say that every win has something that is special.

Mario Andretti

Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

Mario Andretti

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

Mario Andretti

Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.

Mario Andretti

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

Mario Andretti

Author Bio

  • NameMario Andretti
  • DescriptionItalian-American racecar driver
  • AliasesMario Gabriele Andretti
  • BornFebruary 28, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Italy
  • ProfessionFormula One Driver; Racing Driver