Ned Overend Quotes

#1. It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

Laozi

#2. If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

Laurie Anderson

#3. When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

Ned Overend

#4. Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting

MaryJanice Davidson

#5. Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

David Bayles

#6. Why do you need someone else to tell you what you are? Why can't you just write for the sake of writing? You don't have to be famous to do those things.

Rachel Joyce

#7. I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

Dawn French

#8. How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65

Geraldine Brooks

#9. What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.

Nevill Drury

#10. You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.

Ned Overend

#11. Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#12. Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt anyone. What would you say? There's a wide range of ethics among the riders.

Ned Overend

#13. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Marilyn Monroe

#14. Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

Ned Overend