Jens Voigt Quotes

#1. I don't want to have that one year too much, where people actually, behind my back, start smiling at me and pointing fingers at me and go, 'Ah, look, that's Jensie. No, he's not good anymore.'

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#2. It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'

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#3. Shut up body and do what I tell you

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#4. In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

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#5. I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'

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

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#7. If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

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#8. I am a family man, and I have to find my priorities. During the season, it is to race. During the off-season, it is to spend time with my family.

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry.

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#12. One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.

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#13. I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

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#14. If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

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#15. If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

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#16. Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average,

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#17. Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

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#18. I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric - it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.

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#19. Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

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#20. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

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#21. Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

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#22. While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

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#23. I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

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#24. I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.

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#25. The solo break or the small break, it's ... one of the most glorious ways to win a bike race. It's pretty damn impressive in my mind.

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#26. Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

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#27. At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me,

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#28. What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.

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#29. I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.

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#30. Cycling is not rocket science.

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#31. When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

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