When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROSTI work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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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 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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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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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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