Quotes About Cycling

#1. A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

Carson Daly

#2. In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

David Millar

#3. We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

Boris Johnson

#5. I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

Ricky Martin

#6. Drinking and cycling is like drinking and flirting - it's pretty likely you're going to wind up hitting something, and the results are probably going to be ugly.

BikeSnobNYC

#7. It's possible that the name Bettini came up at some point during a conversation with the German Cycling Federation's anti-doping commission, but I certainly didn't claim that he gave me any drugs. They made that up. Bettini warned me: If you said that, then things could get dangerous for you.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#8. The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

E. O. Wilson

#9. I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.

Withered Hand

#10. When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. Cycling is suffering.

Fausto Coppi

#12. Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.

Danilo Di Luca

#13. I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

Chris Froome

#14. When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

Boris Johnson

#15. I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

Camilo Villegas

#16. I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

Greg LeMond

#17. As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

Gerry Abbey

#18. 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

#19. I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

Chris Froome

#20. I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

Ben Saunders

#21. I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

Michelle Dockery

#22. All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.

Magnus Backstedt

#23. The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles ...

Lance Armstrong

#24. All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!

Jenny Colgan

#25. It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.

Robin Farina

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

Bernard Hinault

#27. Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Adrian Bell

#28. If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

Greg LeMond

#29. I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

Dean Karnazes

#30. I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#31. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

Lance Armstrong

#32. I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices ( ... ), the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.

Ransom Riggs

#33. It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

Greg LeMond

#34. 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

#35. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.

Philip Gourevitch

#36. If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

Linda Perhacs

#37. On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.

Tom Hodgkinson

#38. My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

Jon Snow

#39. I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joey Santiago

#40. Cycling is one of those weird pastimes where the participant is continually faced with adversity, mediocrity and many other reasons to stop and go and do something more rewarding instead. Yet I and others carry on doing it, because we can and we love it.

Dave Barter

#41. The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

Greg LeMond

#42. If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Ouida

#43. Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

Mark Webber

#44. Cycling put the world in perspective and increased the gratitude in his attitude.

Kevin Hurley

#45. The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

Jimmy Carr

#46. Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.

Deborah Moggach

#47. Cycling has given me everything,

Bradley Wiggins

#48. In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel
all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round.

Ray Bradbury

#49. I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Marianne Vos

#50. In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

Guy Verhofstadt

#51. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

David Millar

#52. A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

Robin Williams

#53. I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

Andre Dubus III

#54. Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Richard Virenque

#55. To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

Bradley Wiggins

#56. One of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Dervla Murphy

#57. Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.

Jan Ullrich

#58. I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Rick Moody

#59. The energy that usually lashes ineffectively inside each of us now has a conduit, forming a loop of electricity between us, cycling through me, into him. My heart is glowing in my chest like a bulb, flashing brighter with each movement of his lips.

Sally Thorne

#60. Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

Anupam Kher

#61. You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Deborah Bull

#62. Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.

Tom Doig

#63. Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

Lucy Powell

#64. I do yoga almost daily. I try to fit in swimming and cycling when I can.

Martha Hunt

#65. You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Alan Bennett

#66. I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

Jenson Button

#67. I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

Greg LeMond

#68. They both had backgrounds in science, and enjoyed similar pastimes such as cycling and CrossFit.

Patrick Kendrick

#69. Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

Rachel Sklar

#70. To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency.

Eileen Cook

#71. I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

Chris Froome

#72. I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.

Robin Farina

#73. Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Jim Lampley

#74. I'm such a fanatic about exercise that I opened my own gym, 3Sixty Cycling Studio, and I exercise almost every single day.

Bobbi Brown

#75. I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

Eric Heiden

#76. I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

Tom Hodgkinson

#77. I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.

Robin Farina

#78. Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Clare Balding

#79. Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

Kathryn Lasky

#80. Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

Magnus Backstedt

#81. In the second part of my life, away from cycling, I hope I will be able to benefit fully from my family and children in the same way that cycling gave me such joy.

Richard Virenque

#82. As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

Robin Farina

#83. I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

Camilo Villegas

#84. Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

Jens Voigt

#85. My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

#86. There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.

Marianne Vos

#87. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

#88. I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

Aprilynne Pike

#89. Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.

Erin O'Connor

#90. If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

Tyler Hamilton

#91. It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.

Paul Rankin

#92. I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.

Tyler Hamilton

#93. Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, but I'm not a fair weather cyclist. I'm happy to get a red nose in the cold.

Erin O'Connor

#94. The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

Gordon Brown

#95. I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.

Kate Bosworth

#96. I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

Andy Behrman

#97. My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

Magnus Backstedt

#98. I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

Temple Grandin

#99. I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

Denise Van Outen

#100. Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

David Millar