Guy Martin Quotes

Guy Martin

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : November 4, 1981

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?

Guy Martin

I want to win, whatever it takes.

Guy Martin

I don't go out. I work, go racing, then go to my shed and make things.

Guy Martin

I race pushbikes more than I race motorbikes, but it's not the same.

Guy Martin

I work nights on a farm in the summer when harvest starts. I work on a civil engineering site down the Humber Docks where all the refineries are. So that's my day job from seven to four. And then I build engines at night.

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

I fit a lot into my days.

Guy Martin

I can't stop biting off more than I can chew.

Guy Martin

I'd never be disrespectful to road racing. The sport was good to me.

Guy Martin

If you get beaten, and you know that you tried your hardest and kept your focus, then that's all you can do.

Guy Martin

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

Guy Martin

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.

Guy Martin

TV's not really a job, is it?

Guy Martin

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

Guy Martin

Speed on its own isn't always so exciting. On a racing motorbike, I can do over 180 mph, which is fast, but not as fast as the airliners that we all climb aboard to fly off on holiday. Modern passenger jets can cruise at between 500 and 600 mph, but sitting in an aeroplane like that for hours on end isn't very exciting, is it?

Guy Martin

I'm a great believer in setting myself goals, and I like to think that, once I've a goal to aim for, I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.

Guy Martin

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

Guy Martin

I feel that I'm in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.

Guy Martin

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

Guy Martin

A few people have said my granddad looks like me, but I reckon he's far better looking.

Guy Martin