Magic quotes.

Senna on racing:

"In the seconds before the start, when the engine is started, I let myself go, somehow let myself fall. All conscious thinking ceases, everything flows on quite naturally as though of it's own accord. There is a rhythm, something like a perfect melody. Not always, but there is always the eternal search for it. When I find it then I drive in another dimension. Controlled, but totally free, steered only by my very own, I would almost say innate instincts. I am there in the present, but I am also ahead of myself and of time. I sense intuitively much more than I calculate. Unfortunately, these are only rare moments, but wonderful ones."

Monte Carlo ‘88, the last qualifying session:

"I was already on pole and I was going faster and faster. One lap after the other, quicker and quicker and quicker. I was at one stage just 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. 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. 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." "Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realized that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down." "I drove back slowly to the pits and I didn’t want to go out any more that day. It frightened me because I was well beyond my conscious understanding. It happens rarely but I keep these experiences very much alive inside me because it is something that is important for self-preservation."

Senna on qualifying:

"Qualifying tells about the drivers, there is luck involved in the race "

After been robbed in Japan '89:

"Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's a part of me. I've doing it all my live and nobody will destroy it."

Senna about being a F1 driver:

"You live in the dreams of so many people and that is something very special."

Senna on Prost in '92:

"If Prost wants to come back and win another title, he should be sportive. The way he is doing it, he is behaving like a coward. He must be prepared to race anybody in any conditions, on equal terms, and not the way he wants to win the championship"

Senna in '94:

"Everytime I have the feeling things are allright, going well, there is always something or someone in the way.."

Senna on dying:

"The day it arrives, it will arrive. It could be today or 50 years later. The only sure thing is that it will arrive."