Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

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

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.

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

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

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

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

Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

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The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.

A home without a dog is merely a shelter.