Quotes About Cyclists

#1. 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

#2. When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

Dan Hill

#3. Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

Robert James Thomson

#4. Walking with my doggy is so much fun!
And she makes me laugh, she makes me run.
Licking she likes to make some good new friends,
Kindly enough with cyclists who spin with no end.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#5. Telling cyclists to get out of the road is like telling women to get out of the voting booth and go back into the kitchen, or telling Japanese-American people to Go back to China!

BikeSnobNYC

#6. Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

A.S. Byatt

#7. Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.

Christine Gran

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

Eddy Merckx

#9. ...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Lesa Cline-Ransome

#10. When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me.

Bernard Hinault

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The heat tamped everything down. Aside from a handful of certifiable runners and insane cyclists, the park had been left to the birds and squirrels.

Richard Castle

#14. 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

#15. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.

Grant Petersen

#16. A study by the University of Zurich demonstrates a link between attractiveness and endurance performance, showing that successful Tour de France cyclists are judged as more attractive.

Anonymous

#17. Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

Dan Hill

#18. Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

Eric Heiden

#19. Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.

Anthony Liccione

#20. Your heart knows. Your soul remembers.

Colleen Houck

#21. To swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

Markus Zusak

#22. When I do something dorky, I blame it on being homeschooled. When I do something brilliant, I blame it on being homeschooled

Jamie Grace

#23. I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

Matt Skiba

#24. And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Pete Wentz

#25. The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

Daniel Tosh

#26. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.

Grant Petersen

#27. I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

Gina McCarthy

#28. I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Peter Thiel

#29. Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

Anthony Quinn

#30. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

Peter Hain