21 Senna-Zitate, die Eure Motivation aufrecht halten

Der am 21. März 1960 in Sao Paulo geborene Ayrton Senna da Silva war so talentiert, dass er rasch nach seinem Wechsel nach Europa in die Formel 1 kam. Vor allem erarbeitete er sich schnell den Beinamen “Regengott”. 1985 gelang der erste GP-Sieg. Es folgten 40 weitere und die drei Weltmeister-Titel 1988, 1990 und 1991, alle mit McLaren. Hier sind 21 Sprüche des ewig besten Rennfahrers:

• “I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”
• “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.”
• “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.”

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• “I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.”
• “The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.”
• “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.”
• “Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”
• “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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• “When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.”
• “You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.”
• “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 teammate with the same car.”
• “Winning is most important. Everything is consequence of that.”
• “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.”
• “Racing, competing is in my blood, it´s part of me it´s part of my life. I have been doing it all my life. It stands up before everything else.”

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• “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.”
• “I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.”
• “If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I’m going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin my life if I had to live partially.”
• “Racing, competing is in my blood, it´s part of me it´s part of my life. I have been doing it all my life. It stands up before everything else.”

• “You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.”
• “Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.”
• “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.”