1. “I felt as though I was driving in a tunnel. The whole circuit became a tunnel... I had reached such a high level of concentration that it was as if the car and I had become one. Together we were at the maximum. I was giving the car everything - and vice versa.”

2. “Fear is exciting for me.”

3. “Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”

4. “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.”

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

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6. “There are no small accidents on this circuit.”

7. "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."

8. "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."

9. "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."

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

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11. "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.

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

13. "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."

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

15. "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."

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

17. "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)

18. "And 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."

19. "Because in a split second, it's gone."

20. "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."

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21. "I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."

22. "If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."

23. "It is important, when your techical equipment is not the best, to believe there will always be a better race; that is a part of my motivation."

24. "Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles."

25. "My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet."

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26. "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."

27. "The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers."

28. "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."

29. "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."

30. "When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough."

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31. "Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."

32. "Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them."

33. "You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not."

34. "You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood."

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