Indurain Quotes

#1. Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, reported a resting heart rate of only 28 bpm. The reason for this is that, with appropriate training, the heart muscle increases in both size and strength.

Roy Benson

#2. 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

#3. I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

Miguel Indurain

#4. If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

Miguel Indurain

#5. I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

Miguel Indurain

#6. The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

#7. My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

Miguel Indurain

#8. I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Miguel Indurain

#9. I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

M. Ward

#10. Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Raymond Chandler

#11. I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Jaggi Vasudev

#12. To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

Miguel Indurain

#13. I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

Miguel Indurain

#14. When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

Bruce McGill

#15. 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