Guy Martin Quotes

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

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.

At the end of the day, I'm riding a little kid's bike around a track; that's what I've done for as long as I can remember. Now it's just on a bigger stage at the Olympics.

When I turned 17, I had a bike malfunction at a race, and in my head, I went, 'You know what? I'm done. I'm going to go play drums.' I still ride my bikes for fun, but that was the turning point.

Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I'd be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.

I'd love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

I'm betting 100,000 that I'm the fastest man on the planet.

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.