Mario Andretti Quotes

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Even if you’re on the right track, you can get run over if your not going fast enough.

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

We're just moving along as quick as possible.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Life's picking up speed.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much.

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.

Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that's going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.

That's important for me, to never just relax and be too comfortable with what you have.

I don't think anybody goes onto the pitch and wants to go backwards.