Quotes by Barry Sheene

About Barry Sheene:

Barry Steven Frank Sheene was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. After a racing career stretching from 1968 to 1984 he retired from competition and relocated to Australia, working as a motorsport commentator and property developer.
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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

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

Barry Sheene

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

Barry Sheene

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

Barry Sheene

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

Barry Sheene

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

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

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

Barry Sheene

Author Bio

  • NameBarry Sheene
  • DescriptionBritish motorcycle racer
  • BornSeptember 11, 1950
  • DiedMarch 10, 2003
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMotorcycle Racer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire