“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.”
“Fear is exciting for me.”
“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”
“You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.”
“Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.”
“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.”
“My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.”
“When a man holds you round the throat, I don’t think he has come to apologise.”
“You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique, be yourself.”
“When you’re not happy in the sport anymore, you have to leave.”
“I have to keep improving.”
“You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have; everything, absolutely everything.”
“I want to live fully. I know life is not always perfect.”
“I want to be remembered as a driver who was passionate about the sport and gave everything he had.”
“There is no small accident on a circuit; you are always just one step away from serious harm.”
“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.”
“It is important to achieve our goals, but not at any cost.”
“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.”
“You can’t overtake 15 cars in sunny weather, but you can when it’s raining.”
“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.”
“I’m very privileged. I was born to compete, to win.”
“When you are racing, it is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
“When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.”
“You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.”
“I will do my best always.”
“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”
“I don’t want to live forever, but I want to live fully.”
“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.”
“Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.”
“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.”
“Because you want to maintain your position. You want to achieve something.”
“The important thing is to carry on. To carry on!”
“I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”
“I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger.”
Ayrton Senna Quotes :
“Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
“The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
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“I was not born to finish second or third. I was born to win.”
“If you have no fear, it means you are not risking enough.”
“The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.”
“With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
“Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.”
“I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself.”
“To be second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
“The main thing is to be yourself.”
“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it’s only a question of finding the way to experience them.”
“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.”
“Racing, competing, is in my blood. It is part of me, it is part of my life.”
“The day you decide to stop is the day you understand how difficult it was to win.”
“The main thing is to be yourself, even if it means to be different.”