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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.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
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
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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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Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
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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Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
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
Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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Better Bit Help Mentality People Sometimes Team Understand
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Feel Good Race Very Win
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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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Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
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
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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Care Criticise Leg One People Take Wheelchair
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
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
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
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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Hard Jealous People Problem Success Think Work
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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Country Number One People Problem Some Success
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
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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Balance Find Genius Have Some Country
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Fact Judge Long Only Sport Term Thing
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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take

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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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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