I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
ALAIN PROSTPeople who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that’s the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
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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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I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.
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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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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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