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 More Quotes by Guy Martin More Quotes From 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 walk work home tea I'll always give it my all, and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega. Guy Martin bmw like always quality People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going. Guy Martin talk keep-going race people 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 job day work night 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 your know you focus 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 hospital myself me work Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life. Guy Martin choose everyone see life Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them. Guy Martin achieving goals yourself life Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do. Guy Martin go speed together fun 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 back good race reason The TT taxes your mind. Guy Martin your taxes mind I fit a lot into my days. Guy Martin days lot fit I can't stop biting off more than I can chew. Guy Martin than stop more i-can I'd never be disrespectful to road racing. The sport was good to me. Guy Martin road good me racing People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways. Guy Martin well different race people 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 year you half remember 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 never back me bike 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 corner you bike way TV's not really a job, is it? Guy Martin really tv job TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would. Guy Martin great competition said people