Jalabert Quotes

#1. Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started ... I was fine.

John Bonham

#3. We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

Scott Jurek

#4. Time is the third party to every relationship.

Nuala O'Faolain

#5. I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

Laurent Jalabert

#6. Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

Nnimmo Bassey

#7. I hate competition.

Marat Safin

#8. Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Laurent Jalabert

#10. We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Laurent Jalabert

#11. What woke him was a subconscious awareness of atmospheric change. The billowing curtains over his east windows looked like a fat ghostly intruder.

Carolyn Weston

#12. In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

James Russell Lowell

#13. My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

Steve Irwin

#14. I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

Art Spiegelman

#15. Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Georgette Heyer

#16. Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.

Sapan Saxena

#17. Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

Laurent Jalabert

#18. I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

Laurent Jalabert

#19. Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race.

Laurent Jalabert

#20. A student who listens gains more than a sage who speaks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

Laurent Jalabert