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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.

Alain Prost

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
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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
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
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
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
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
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
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Feel Good Race Very Win
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
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
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Build Confidence Experience Important Interest Very Well
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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

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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