Barry Sheene Quotes

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

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#2. Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

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#3. They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

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

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

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

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#7. It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

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#11. I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

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