They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

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

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.

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.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.

We have to create perfection through love

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power