Quotes from Ayrton Senna

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

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.

Fear is exciting for me.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. 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.

And suddenly I realized 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.

With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

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.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

I have no idols. I respect hard work, dedication and competence

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

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.

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

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

Il casco nasconde sentimenti che non possono essere compresi.

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

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

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.

Nothing can separate me from the love of God.

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.

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.