Mario Andretti famous quotes

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Honesty #Motivation #Believe

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop.You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish....
-- Mario Andretti

#Goal #Hungry #Foolish

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
-- Mario Andretti

#Animal #Car #Racing

The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
-- Mario Andretti

#Race #Hands #Car

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
-- Mario Andretti

#Thinking #Car #May

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
-- Mario Andretti

#Motivational #Sports #Opportunity

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
-- Mario Andretti

#Heart #Decision #Facts

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough
-- Mario Andretti

#Hands #Racing #Trying

Desire is the key to motivation.
-- Mario Andretti

#Motivation #Keys #Desire

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again
-- Mario Andretti

#Trying #Thrown #Try Again

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
-- Mario Andretti

#Dream #Goal #Age

The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
-- Mario Andretti

#Car #People #Missing

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
-- Mario Andretti

#Believe #Able #Pick Yourself Up

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.
-- Mario Andretti

#Racing #Big Families #Bigs

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

#Car #Driving #Neighbor

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
-- Mario Andretti

#Mistake #Aggressive

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

#Men #Names #Pushing

Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.
-- Mario Andretti

#Carnegie #Replaced

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

#Accomplishment #Risk #Feelings

I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
-- Mario Andretti

#Men #Looks #Alive

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
-- Mario Andretti

#Men #Fool #Rich

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
-- Mario Andretti

#Waiting

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
-- Mario Andretti

#Succeed #Chance #Take A Chance

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
-- Mario Andretti

#Morning #Watches #Nascar

Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
-- Mario Andretti

#Enough #Respectful #Drivers

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Beach #Real #Character

When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
-- Mario Andretti

#Running #Air #Differences

If you don't feel out of control, you're not driving fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti

#Driving Fast #Driving #Enough

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
-- Mario Andretti

#Sight #Goal #Delay

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Wine #Winning #Judging

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
-- Mario Andretti

#Brilliant #Talent #Ability

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.
-- Mario Andretti

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sucess

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

#Race #Bullets #Way

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
-- Mario Andretti

#Race #Track #Car

You dream what you're supposed to do
-- Mario Andretti

#Dream

Nobody is born with a steering wheel or a gear shift in his hand. It's something you choose to do or you don't.
-- Mario Andretti

#Hands #Racing #Gears

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.
-- Mario Andretti

#Giving #Car #Racing

My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around.
-- Mario Andretti

#Fall #Race #Boredom

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Dream #Passion #Desire

For every negative, there’s a positive. It’s in everything. How you deal with life, outlook, how much energy you put into achieving something. That’s why I detest entitlement. Anything that’s worthwhile is going to call for some sacrifice. Nothing worthwhile will come to you without a price. People think in sports, you have different rules. You really don’t. It’s whatever motivates you,
-- Mario Andretti

#Sports #Sacrifice #Thinking

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
-- Mario Andretti

#Blessing #Granted #Honestly

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti

#Teamwork #Thinking #Enough

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.
-- Mario Andretti

#Failure #Clouds #Black