Cycling Suffering Quotes

#1. Cycling is suffering.

Fausto Coppi

#2. Suffering for eight hours ... the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Chris Boardman

#3. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.

Philip Gourevitch

#4. If you knew the pain I had in my legs ... what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.

Thomas Voeckler

#5. A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

John Tomac

#6. The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Greg LeMond

#7. Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

Miguel Indurain