Top 100 Cycling's Quotes
#1. I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.
Greg LeMond
#2. Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.
Ryan Lilly
#3. To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency.
Eileen Cook
#4. Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second.
Neil Pasricha
#5. 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.
Greg LeMond
#6. Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
Lucy Powell
#7. You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.
Deborah Bull
#8. I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
Andre Dubus III
#9. A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].
Robin Williams
#10. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
David Millar
#11. Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.
Butch Cassidy
#12. 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.
Mark Cavendish
#13. Cycling put the world in perspective and increased the gratitude in his attitude.
Kevin Hurley
#14. 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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#15. Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.
Mark Webber
#16. If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
Ouida
#17. The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
Greg LeMond
#18. Cycling is one of those weird pastimes where the participant is continually faced with adversity, mediocrity and many other reasons to stop and go and do something more rewarding instead. Yet I and others carry on doing it, because we can and we love it.
Dave Barter
#19. If you knew the pain I had in my legs ... what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.
Thomas Voeckler
#20. I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
Joey Santiago
#21. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?
Henri Desgrange
#22. My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.
Jon Snow
#23. On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.
Tom Hodgkinson
#24. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.
Neal Stephenson
#25. If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.
Linda Perhacs
#26. 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
#27. You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.
Robin Farina
#28. At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
Curtis Jackson
#29. Cycling isn't a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn't play at cycling.
Jean De Gribaldy
#30. Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
Gary Kemp
#31. Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash.
David Millar
#32. I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.
Greg LeMond
#33. Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!
Adrian Bell
#34. What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
Lance Armstrong
#35. 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.
Ivan Illich
#36. There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
David Byrne
#37. You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.
Susan Vreeland
#38. People are getting more active and living healthier in San Antonio, whether it's walking, cycling, or using our parks. We now have concrete evidence that our investments are paying off and positively impacting the health of our families and the overall quality of life in San Antonio.
Julian Castro
#39. Salt Spring Island is a jewel, Quinn," Paul said. "A real jewel. Right up your alley. There's cycling, hiking, scuba diving - and great fishing. No problem for you to occupy yourself.
Carole Dean
#40. Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
Miguel Indurain
#41. Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.
Magnus Backstedt
#42. 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.
Mark Cavendish
#43. I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.
Kate Bosworth
#44. [Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.
James L. Jones
#45. I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.
Tyler Hamilton
#46. If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.
Tyler Hamilton
#47. There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.
Marianne Vos
#49. 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.
Bill Nye
#50. 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.
Victoria Pendleton
#51. I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.
Robin Farina
#52. I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.
Withered Hand
#53. As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.
Gerry Abbey
#54. I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
Greg LeMond
#56. I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.
Camilo Villegas
#57. Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
Frances E. Willard
#58. When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
Boris Johnson
#59. 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.
Chris Froome
#60. I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#61. The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
John Howard
#62. Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.
Danilo Di Luca
#64. When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.
Sri Chinmoy
#65. Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
Bernard Hinault
#66. The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson
#67. It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#68. Drinking and cycling is like drinking and flirting - it's pretty likely you're going to wind up hitting something, and the results are probably going to be ugly.
BikeSnobNYC
#69. I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.
Ricky Martin
#70. When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
Boris Johnson
#71. We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#72. Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
Flann O'Brien
#73. In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.
David Millar
#75. A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
Carson Daly
#76. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
Sheryl Crow
#77. A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.
Bear Grylls
#78. Suffering for eight hours ... the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.
Chris Boardman
#79. I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices ( ... ), the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.
Ransom Riggs
#80. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
#81. I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#82. I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.
Dean Karnazes
#84. If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
Greg LeMond
#85. Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.
Adrian Bell
#86. I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment ... a job.
Bernard Hinault
#87. It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
Robin Farina
#89. It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
Greg LeMond
#90. Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
Susan B. Anthony
#91. All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!
Jenny Colgan
#92. I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.
Eddy Merckx
#93. Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
John F. Kennedy
#94. Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
The Velominati
#95. The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles ...
Lance Armstrong
#96. All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.
Magnus Backstedt
#97. I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.
Michelle Dockery
#98. When my legs hurt, I say: Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!
Jens Voigt
#99. I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
Ben Saunders
#100. I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.
Chris Froome
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