Anquetil Quotes

#1. It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

T. S. Eliot

#2. It was eleven more than neccessary.

Jacques Anquetil

#3. The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants

Jacques Anquetil

#5. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Sol LeWitt

#6. You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

Jacques Anquetil

#7. You're the warm sheets next to me every morning, and the bright colors in the dryer when we do laundry. You're the toothbrush next to mine on the sink. You're the first sip of coffee in the morning, and the last sip of win at night.

Shannon Richard

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

Jacques Anquetil

#9. If you want to know how much I love you, look into my eyes with your heart open.

Sunny

#10. Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.

Jacques Anquetil

#11. You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

Jacques Anquetil

#12. There are no races. Only lotteries.

Jacques Anquetil

#13. Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

George Pelecanos