When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROSTWhen I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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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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 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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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