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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
Misery
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Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
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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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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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In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.
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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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I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
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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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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.
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You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
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Fear is exciting for me.
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The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
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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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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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Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
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