Alain Prost Quotes

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.

I don't drive by the seat of my pants and happen to win races. I work very hard to interpret the data and drive a certain way. My engineers have confidence in me, and more often than not, when I tell them what I need or what I am feeling with the car, it's right.

Winning races is very difficult - actually, it's not: you just have to qualify in front, and then it's much easier, from what we've analysed!

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.

We see every game as a big game, and, as you know in tournament football, anything is possible. Each game, we want to keep raising the bar and lifting our standards and putting goals past teams.

I don't know what happens with other players or what is in their heads, but for me - just win.

Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

As I have evolved as a coach, I was a guy who was all about the game and a person who focused on the wins and losses.

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

I won promotion four times as a player, and I'm not going to deny I would enjoy another one as a manager, but you can ask any of the clubs I went up with and they will tell you the same. My focus was always dead calm, always on the next game.

I pitch to win.

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.