- Mick Doohan: I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.
- Wayne Rainey: As a racer you always have that at the back of your mind. That you always wonder when's it gonna happen. Cause it will happen, you know you will fall off.
- Max Biaggi: For the first approach you will think this is a crazy sport, but at the end of the day it's not that crazy.
- Kevin Schwantz: Growin' up as a kid, always thinkin', you know If I could ever just race motorcycles and make a living that would be the coolest thing know to mankind.
- Eddie Lawson: That's you job and that's what you do and you have to win, or you're out of your mind. If you got second you just wanted to kill everybody.
- Julian Ryder: Anybody who could ride a 500cc GP motorcycle well enough to qualify on Grand Prix grid is a hero, Anybody! because these things are the most evil devices if your treat them wrong they will bite.
- Graziano Rossi: In Italy, the Doctor is a name you give to someone for respect. It's very important "The Doctor".
- Fan: They're all superstars, even the one at the back.
- Wayne Rainey: That day I was off just a little bit. I was struggling, but... I'd been in that situation many times so it wasn't nothing new. It was just an error on my part I just gotten in a little bit to hot, carrying little bit too much corner speed. So I really had to bank the bike over really hard keep it on line and when I just opened the throttle it...it stepped out. It was just an easy... It was an easy crash because it stepped out and I fell off the side of it. I was like sliding with the bike across the track but when I went off the track I hit a curb. It kind of set me up in the air then I landed in the gravel trap it had like speed bumps in it for the F1 cars and at that time that's what we were using in motorcycles. As soon I hit that I started, it set me off so then you know I didn't have any control how I was landing, where I was gonna land.
- Tad Pilati: There's no feeling from the center of his chest down. He's being held in a hospital, he's in stable condition and the next 48 hours are gonna tell us everything.
- Wayne Rainey: Now all the sand traps are smooth but sometimes it takes a big incident to get something changed.
- Kevin Schwantz: I use to love the rain because I felt like it made my motorcycles exactly the same as everybody else. At that point it turned in to a rider to rider battle.
- Dr. Claudio Costa: In the riders' veins there are drops of Dionysian madness which are beautiful because they give the heroes of motorcycling the power to live life fully.