Quotes from Guy Martin

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.

Pike's Peak was the single best thing I've ever done in motorbiking.

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.

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've never lived like a bloody rock star or anything.

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.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

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

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

When you dead, you dead.

The TT taxes your mind.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.

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

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