Barry Sheene Quotes


"I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Mission, Racing, Suicide)

"I decided there and then to sue the bastards."
- Barry Sheene
"I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out."
- Barry Sheene
"It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Money, Fault)

"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Formula)

"Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Respect)

"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: World)

"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Talk)

"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."
- Barry Sheene
(Related: Love, Man, World)