Top 84 Senna's Quotes
#1. In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.
Asif Kapadia
#2. This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before
Murray Walker
#3. Senna's case was not why did he crash or who was to blame, but why
Max Mosley
#4. Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?
Murray Walker
#5. Isaac: "It hurts me when you cry."
Senna: "I'm crying, but I don't feel anything,"
Isaac: "Yes, I know. That's what hurts me the most.
Tarryn Fisher
#6. If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
Ayrton Senna
#7. If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.
Ayrton Senna
#8. I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.
Amber Argyle
#9. Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
Ayrton Senna
#10. I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
Ayrton Senna
#11. I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.
Ayrton Senna
#12. 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
#13. You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
Ayrton Senna
#14. 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
#15. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#16. After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is
Damon Hill
#17. Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.
Ayrton Senna
#18. 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
#19. With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.
Ayrton Senna
#20. In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.
Martin Jacques
#21. I am not designed to come second
or third, I am designed
to win.
Ayrton Senna
#22. You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Ayrton Senna
#23. I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history.
Bruno Senna
#24. My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.
Asif Kapadia
#25. Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
Ayrton Senna
#26. Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.*
Louisa May Alcott
#27. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#28. When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.
Asif Kapadia
#29. And suddenly I realized 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
#30. It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.
Ayrton Senna
#31. Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.
Lewis Hamilton
#33. You have to believe someone sometime, Senna. When they tell you that. Otherwise you'll never know what it feels like to be loved. And that's a sad thing.
Tarryn Fisher
#34. Nothing can separate me from the love of God.
Ayrton Senna
#35. A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.
Bruno Senna
#36. My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.
Danzy Senna
#37. Senna reached for David's hand. I got up, dragged my chair over, and shoved in between them. This brought a faint nod from Merlin.
~Everworld, Enter the Enchanted
K.A. Applegate
#38. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#39. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#40. When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna
#41. When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
Lewis Hamilton
#42. Senna: "Why are you here?"
Isaac: "Because you are.
Tarryn Fisher
#43. The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
Ayrton Senna
#44. 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
#45. Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.
Ron Dennis
#46. I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna
#47. When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.
Ayrton Senna
#48. Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?
Asif Kapadia
#49. Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.
Nico Rosberg
#50. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#51. We are all going to die, but I'm going to die first. In the very last second of my life, I will think of you.
Senna
Tarryn Fisher
#52. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#54. His lips move against my hair. "I'm sorry, Senna."
I tremble. He's sorry? Him? "For what?" There is a million year pause.
"I couldn't save you this time."
I cry into his chest. Not because he couldn't. Because he wanted to.
Tarryn Fisher
#55. The past is just data. I only see the future.
Ayrton Senna
#56. There are no small accidents on this circuit.
Ayrton Senna
#57. My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
Danzy Senna
#59. We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
Asif Kapadia
#60. 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 fragile.
Ayrton Senna
#61. I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger
Ayrton Senna
#62. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.
Tarryn Fisher
#64. 'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'
Asif Kapadia
#65. 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.
Ayrton Senna
#66. I am very proud to be Brazilian and more motivated than ever to demonstrate what I can do.
Bruno Senna
#67. My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Ayrton Senna
#68. When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere
Ayrton Senna
#69. I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.
Murray Walker
#70. 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
#71. Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
Ayrton Senna
#72. I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.
Danzy Senna
#73. 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
#74. One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.
Bruno Senna
#75. Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton Senna
#76. Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.
Asif Kapadia
#77. 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
#78. You know, I tried not to think of this place. I tried to let it go. To leave it behind. But it always came back to me, in my dreams. I'd dream about these details, these objects and people and places I'd left behind, and I'd wake up crying.
Danzy Senna
#79. If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
Ayrton Senna
#80. I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
Ayrton Senna
#81. Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day
you will reach your goal.
Ayrton Senna
#82. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing
competing to win.
Ayrton Senna
#84. On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.
Asif Kapadia
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