Al Unser, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
-- Al Unser, Jr.

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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Al Unser, Jr. famous quotes

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