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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

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Once You Are In

Ayrton Senna

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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.

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