Cycling Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Independence, Want, Able

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• 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

  Dream, Sorry, Believe

  "The World According to Lance" Transcript, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Riding Your Bike, Sweat

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Taken, Who I Am, Identity

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

  Stephen Roche

  Beautiful, Strong, Long

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Should Have, Progress

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  Claude Pepper

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

  Danny Hillis

  Knights, Broken, Understanding

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• Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

  Adrian Bell

  Sports, School, People

  "Cycling makes you look and feel great!". "Raise Your Game" with Colin Jackson, www.bbc.co.uk.

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  If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Football, Fall

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Caring

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• 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

  Simple, Forever, Different

  Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Home, Mean, Work Out

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I
  chose to embrace hills.

  Hal Higdon

  Strong, Hate, Today

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• When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

  Minka Kelly

  Workout, Better Days, Good Work

  "Minka Kelly's Diet and Workout Tips" By Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Everything is bicycle.

  Stephen Crane

  Bicycle

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.859, Library of America

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• There are no races. Only lotteries.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Race, Bike, Lottery

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• I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Healing, Destiny

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• 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

  Should Have, Cities, America

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.161, Best Books on

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Bronze Medal

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• Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Athlete, Race

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• The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

  John Galsworthy

  Strong, Sex, Weekend

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• What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, I Have Learned, Retiring

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• For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.

  Michelle Alexander

  Children, Home, Broken

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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