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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.

Alain Prost

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
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Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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
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
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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
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 work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
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
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 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
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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Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
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
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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Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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Bit English Maybe Reserve Something Stupid Think
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
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Better Mentality Result Some Sometimes Think
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
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
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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Another Hate Important Part Race Success
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

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