Zitat des Tages von Mario Andretti:
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
I always say that every win has something that is special.
I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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.
Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
Not all teammates tell the truth.
Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.
Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn't do it. And vice versa - when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what's important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.
Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
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.
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.
Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.
A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.
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.
You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.
The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.