Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.
Guy Martin
People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going.
If you get beaten, and you know that you tried your hardest and kept your focus, then that's all you can do.
I'll always give it my all, and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega.
Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.
I'm not an idiot. Everything is calculated that I do.
They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.
There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.
Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.
If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.
I'm big into the Stone Roses.
Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.
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 get home from work at six or seven. When I'm busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.
I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.
I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I'll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It's probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn't affect my movement.
I fit a lot into my days.
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.
We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.
I work nights on a farm in the summer when harvest starts. I work on a civil engineering site down the Humber Docks where all the refineries are. So that's my day job from seven to four. And then I build engines at night.
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.
I was working for Martin Finnegan. He was my best mate in racing. I went to his wedding in November 2007. No-one else from the racing world was invited apart from me and my girlfriend. The funeral was the following May.
There's no more expensive sport than racing bloody motorbikes.
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'm not an ungrateful person.
People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.
Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.
I like films, but I can't sit still for very long.
I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.
I don't go out. I work, go racing, then go to my shed and make things.
When I crash during a race and injure myself, what's the point in whinging? Because I put myself in that position. No one's making me race motorbikes - I want to go and race motorbikes. The most annoying thing for me is lying in hospital and not being able to get to work. I get beside myself.
I like talking but on my terms. I don't like people talking to me, but I like talking to people.
I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.
If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.
The TT taxes your mind.
I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.
I can't stop biting off more than I can chew.
I don't go to racers' funerals.
Pike's Peak was the single best thing I've ever done in motorbiking.
Building the machine for 'Speed' was fun, as was working on the 'Spitfire' programme. They are programmes I enjoyed being on, but they are not my job.
I should be paid to be a spokesman for Ford Transit.
I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, even less again.
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.
TV's not really a job, is it?
I love Scarborough. I think I have more wins there than anyone else.
I've never lived like a bloody rock star or anything.
Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime.
I can sleep on a bloody washing line if I want to.
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.
