Ayrton Senna Quotes

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.

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

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

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

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

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

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

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

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.

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

If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.

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 other's.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

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

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

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

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing can separate me from the love of God.

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.

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.

Fear is exciting for me.

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.

When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.

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.

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