Quotes by Ayrton Senna

About Ayrton Senna:

Ayrton Senna da Silva is considered by many as the greatest racing driver of all time.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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...

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

Fear is exciting for me.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Ayrton Senna

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

Ayrton Senna

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Ayrton Senna

Author Bio

  • NameAyrton Senna
  • DescriptionBrazilian racing driver
  • BornMarch 21, 1960
  • DiedMay 1, 1994
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionFormula One Driver; Racing Driver