Barry Sheene Quotes

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I love the fast lane.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

I live to feel myself in danger.

After I finished racing in the United States, I received a lot of criticism for being dangerous, a little bit stupid, insane, you name it.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

I don't want to die in a race car.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.