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I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool! -- Kevin Keegan
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre -- Virginia Woolf
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical. -- Valentino Rossi
Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set. -- Pete Gill
The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings. -- Jackie Stewart
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible. -- Romain Grosjean
For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre. -- Eamon
The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action. -- Richie Benaud
The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg. -- Timothy Olyphant
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners. -- Tom Kristensen
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape. -- Beatrix Campbell
During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron. -- Robert Penn
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year. -- Ray Winstone
As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres. -- Romain Grosjean

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