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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.

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
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
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
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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Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
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 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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Feel Fix Flat Good Like Out Outside Race Time Very Win
I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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Bit English Maybe Reserve Something Stupid Think
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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Balance Find Genius Have Some Country
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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Country Driver Good History Look Many Sport Understand
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
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
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

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