Barry Sheene Quotations

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.

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.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

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.

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.