Hinault Quotes

#1. It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

Lance Armstrong

#2. I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

Bernard Hinault

#3. Cycling is open to the whole world.

Bernard Hinault

#4. I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Bernard Hinault

#6. I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Bernard Hinault

#7. The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#8. Because one of these days, someone's going to come along, someone who deserves your time and attention, someone who might really care about you, and you're going to be too far gone to even see what's right in front of your face. You're going to miss out on true love, Mandy.

Tracie Puckett

#9. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

Patricia Highsmith

#10. The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. As long as I live and breathe, I attack

Bernard Hinault

#12. Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.

Debasish Mridha

#13. This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#14. As long as I breathe, I attack.

Bernard Hinault

#15. Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Plato

#16. People cannot be molded like clay.

Louisa May Alcott

#17. I race to win, not to please people.

Bernard Hinault

#18. I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

Bernard Hinault

#19. When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me.

Bernard Hinault

#20. I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from a much deeper place.

Lynn Coady

#21. The danger with relationships when we are vulnerable is that we may not be able to evaluate them honestly and from a godly perspective. What is bitter may look sweet because of our weakened position.

Lois Mowday Rabey

#22. Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.

Bernard Hinault

#23. I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Bernard Hinault

#24. Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust.

Rebecca Makkai

#25. Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

Thom Jones

#26. I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment ... a job.

Bernard Hinault

#27. I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

Bernard Hinault

#28. There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

Marc Evan Jackson

#29. 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

#30. He has a head, two arms, two legs, just as I.

Bernard Hinault