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 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.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

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

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.