Ayrton Senna

“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”

“Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.”

“I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.”

“I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”

“The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.”

“And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.”

“I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.”

“Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.”

“Because in a split second, it's gone.”

“And so 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.”

“It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.”

“There are no small accidents on this circuit.”

“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.”

“Fear is exciting for me.”

“Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.”

“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 same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.”

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.”

“You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.”

“Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.”

“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.”