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

Ayrton Senna

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Ayrton Senna
Age: 34 †
Born: 1960
Born: March 21
Died: 1994
Died: May 1
Businessperson
Formula 1 Driver
Formula One Driver
Philanthropist
Racing Automobile Driver
Ayrton Senna da Silva
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I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.
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The past is just data. I only see the future.
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We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them.
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I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.
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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.
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I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger
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Fear is exciting for me.
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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
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If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.
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You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.
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Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
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Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.
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When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
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Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
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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.
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Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.
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The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to go into, areas where I have not been before. It's lonely driving a Grand Prix car, but very absorbing. I have experienced new sensations, and I want more. That is my excitement, my motivation.
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With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.
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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.
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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.
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