Merckx Quotes

#1. I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

Eddy Merckx

#2. Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Eddy Merckx

#3. A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

Sylvia Browne

#4. To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#5. I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#6. California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

Ed Begley Jr.

#7. I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

Kenneth Kaunda

#8. I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

Eddy Merckx

#9. Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

Zac Goldsmith

#10. Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

Eddy Merckx

#11. There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over ... The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.

Eddy Merckx

#12. Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

Eddy Merckx

#13. Those with open hearts always have open hands.

Rumi

#14. If I had a baseball bat and bulldozer, maybe I could stop him. But without real weapons, without a pistol, a man-eating lion, and a vial of bubonic plague, I had zero change of competing against him.

Sherman Alexie

#15. Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books can warp space-time and tear the fabric of reality.

Daniel Harms

#16. In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

Eddy Merckx