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"Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance."

"I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world."

"You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast."

"The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes."

"I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world."
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