“The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.”
“To be second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
“When you’re not happy in the sport anymore, you have to leave.”
“You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have; everything, absolutely everything.”
“It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.”
“You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.”
“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.”
“I want to live fully. I know life is not always perfect.”
“I was not born to finish second or third. I was born to win.”
“My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.”
“There is no small accident on a circuit; you are always just one step away from serious harm.”
“Because you want to maintain your position. You want to achieve something.”
“If you have no fear, it means you are not risking enough.”
“The day you decide to stop is the day you understand how difficult it was to win.”
Ayrton Senna Quotes :
“Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.”
“And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit.’ As soon you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further.”
“With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
“When a man holds you round the throat, I don’t think he has come to apologise.”
“I want to be remembered as a driver who was passionate about the sport and gave everything he had.”
“I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself.”
“Racing, competing, is in my blood. It is part of me, it is part of my life.”
“I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”
“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.”
“You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.”
“I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger.”
“Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.”
“You can’t overtake 15 cars in sunny weather, but you can when it’s raining.”
“The important thing is to carry on. To carry on!”
“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”
“The main thing is to be yourself.”
“I have to keep improving.”
“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it’s only a question of finding the way to experience them.”
“I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.”
“I’m very privileged. I was born to compete, to win.”
“Fear is exciting for me.”
“The main thing is to be yourself, even if it means to be different.”
“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do.”
“The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
“Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.”
“When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.”
“I don’t want to live forever, but I want to live fully.”
“I will do my best always.”
“It is important to achieve our goals, but not at any cost.”
“You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique, be yourself.”
“You have to be able to compromise. You have to be able to give something up, because when you make a decision, you have to be able to make it work.”
“When you are racing, it is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”
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“Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.”