When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
ALAIN PROSTThe people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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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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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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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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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 have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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