Top 22 Alain Prost Quotes

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, 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.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.

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.

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.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone – sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

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.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

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.

People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.