I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

The most common way to crash coming out of a corner is to highside - which is where you accelerate out of the corner, and the rear loses grip, then suddenly finds grip and chucks you off the bike.

I can sleep on a bloody washing line if I want to.

There's no more expensive sport than racing bloody motorbikes.

I fit a lot into my days.

People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.

For my first race, when I was 19, I'd bought a 600cc bike. And that was far too big for me, really. I shouldn't have really had something like that. But anyway, I went and raced, and I crashed. In my very first race! But I never gave in. I kept going back and back and back.

TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would.

Speed on its own isn't always so exciting. On a racing motorbike, I can do over 180 mph, which is fast, but not as fast as the airliners that we all climb aboard to fly off on holiday. Modern passenger jets can cruise at between 500 and 600 mph, but sitting in an aeroplane like that for hours on end isn't very exciting, is it?

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

I feel that I'm in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

I want to win, whatever it takes.

Going back because it's what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to race the TT.

Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime.

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

The only thing I keep from the races I've won are the handle bar grips from the bike, the rubber bits.

What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.

I do all that TV stuff, and it's not real work.

I don't see coming down to London and talking to people and making TV shows as real work. The only reason I do it is because they keep coming up with decent ideas.

It's bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.

Some riders believe in all the hype at the TT; have a successful week, give up work then go and buy motorhomes and cars. I like to get back to normal afterwards and go to work.

My idea of splashing out would be buying a new spanner. I've got about 300 - you can't have too many in my opinion.

I'm the luckiest man alive.

In my normal life, I am a private person doing a proper job.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

I race pushbikes more than I race motorbikes, but it's not the same.

I know what a pound is, and I earn my £12 an hour, and that's great.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

I like films, but I can't sit still for very long.

As far as I am concerned, the Ulster Grand Prix is my favourite race.

I like the Mid Antrim circuit, and if anyone were to ask me to show them a typical Irish road surface, I would take them to the Mid Antrim. It is awesome.

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

I've got my own TV stuff on the go, and it's all a bit oddball - it's one-offs, and I can do what, when, and how I want it, really. I don't have any scripts or people telling me to do stuff twice.

I'm not into these mollycoddled sorts of things; I like a bit of danger. I haven't got a death wish, but it makes things exciting, doesn't it?

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I'm not an ungrateful person.

I should be paid to be a spokesman for Ford Transit.

When you dead, you dead.

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.