Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBEwas a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who remained as Britain's last champion in 1977 until Danny Kent in 2015... (wikipedia)
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
I do resent giving the income tax inspector 83 per cent.
The engine seized and I crashed. But I came third in my second race, then won both races the following weekend, and again the weekend after that.