The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set.

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

No one ever complained their way to the top.

There's no human remedy for sin.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.