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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Alain Prost

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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Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
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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Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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Course Drive Idiot Nothing Scare
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.
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Feel Fix Flat Good Like Out Outside Race Time Very Win
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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Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
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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Hard Jealous People Problem Success Think Work
I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take
Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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Better Bit Help Mentality People Sometimes Team Understand
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Car Curb Go Hard Over Want
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Fact Judge Long Only Sport Term Thing
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
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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Career Fact Judge Long Race Season Sport Term Thing
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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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Best Bit Convince Country Good Little Quiet Team
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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Country Driver Good History Look Many Sport Understand
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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Care Criticise Leg One People Take Wheelchair
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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Country Number One People Problem Some Success
Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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Centimetre Helmet Know Make Much Really Tallest
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Feel Good Race Very Win

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

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