Andretti Racing Quotes & Sayings

Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all. — Warren Farrell

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. — Michael Andretti

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

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

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world. — Michael 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

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

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

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

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude. — Arthur Symons

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

Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet — Mae Jemison

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks. — Candace Cameron

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

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

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact. — Mario Andretti

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

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

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