Cycling Quotes

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

My wife is so hot so I don't care it I lose every stage of the 2015 Tour to Kittle. Yea, he's got cool hair but my wife is super hot.

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

There are no races. Only lotteries.

I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

It was eleven more than neccessary.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Cycling is suffering.

I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Everything is bicycle.

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.