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.
ALAIN PROSTWhen you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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