Quotes of the Week

Friday 13 May 1994 23:02 BST
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Roland Ratzenberger was an inexperienced driver in a small team. Senna's death was a bigger shock. He was so good it is as if the sun has fallen from the sky. He was the one driver so perfect nobody thought anything could happen to him. Gerhard Berger, a friend of Ayrton Senna, sums up the feeling.

My big problem is that I have lost faith in technology. I've had so many accidents in which technical failures were the cause, I have just lost confidence. Berger.

Monaco was Senna's race. It is still hard to believe he will not be there. Eddie Jordan, team owner.

I'd have him before Gascoigne. He's bomb-proof. Alan Ball on Matt Le Tissier.

A moose in the middle of the day - I couldn't imagine that. The Opel turned into a convertible, the roof just disappeared. Klas Ingesson, Swedish midfielder, after his car hit a moose.

I'm used to spoiling Double parties - I did it against Liverpool for Wimbledon. Dennis Wise, of Chelsea, about United.

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