Entry for July 12, 2007

Truelly a man to become a role model.

R.I.P.


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


* "On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. 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."


* "One particular thing that Formula-1 can provide you, is that you know you're always exposed to danger. Danger of getting hurt, danger of dying. This is part of your life, and you either face it in a professional, in a cool manner, or you just drop it, just leave it and don't do it anymore really. And I happen to like too much what I do to just drop it, I can't drop it."


* "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."


* "There are no small accidents on this circuit." - talking about the Imola circuit before the fatal 1994 race.


* "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." - pre-season 1994.


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


* "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."


* "My car quit so I parked it." (after retiring from the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix)


* "If you have a target in your life, a real target, doesn't matter if you are very poor or rich people, if you work hard and believe in God, you can get the success, success in the life."


* "I know that it is impossible to win always. I just hope that defeat doesn't come this weekend."


* "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." (January 1994, 4 months prior to his death)

Ayrton Senna da Silva.

...The same heart, the same blood, the same passion, the same determination, the same speed, the same success to come, the same love, the same death...

...Just different day...