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.
ALAIN PROSTSo 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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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
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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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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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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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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 don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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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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