Guy Martin Quotes

Guy Martin

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : November 4, 1981

You can't argue with physics, mate.

Guy Martin

There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

I like talking but on my terms. I don't like people talking to me, but I like talking to people.

Guy Martin

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

Guy Martin

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

My idea of splashing out would be buying a new spanner. I've got about 300 - you can't have too many in my opinion.

Guy Martin

There's no more expensive sport than racing bloody motorbikes.

Guy Martin

I'm not an ungrateful person.

Guy Martin

Building the machine for 'Speed' was fun, as was working on the 'Spitfire' programme. They are programmes I enjoyed being on, but they are not my job.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

I'll always give it my all, and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega.

Guy Martin

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

Guy Martin

I like the Mid Antrim circuit, and if anyone were to ask me to show them a typical Irish road surface, I would take them to the Mid Antrim. It is awesome.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.

Guy Martin

When I crash during a race and injure myself, what's the point in whinging? Because I put myself in that position. No one's making me race motorbikes - I want to go and race motorbikes. The most annoying thing for me is lying in hospital and not being able to get to work. I get beside myself.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin