Guy Martin

I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't want to be famous.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm the luckiest man alive.