The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROSTIn 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
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When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.
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