Cycling Quotes - Page 9

• I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

  Lance Armstrong

  Growth, Expansion, Saws

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  Marianne Vos

  Riding, France, Thanks

  "Vos: Britain 'way ahead' of Netherlands for women in cycling". Interview with Felix Lowe, www.eurosport.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Messages

  Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

  Adrian Bell

  Kings, Oxford, Car

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

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• Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

  Tennessee Williams

  Father, Home, Hands

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• My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

  Jane Pauley

  Spinning, Tides, Sometimes

  Jane Pauley (2004). “Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue”, p.4, Random House

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Machines, World, Littles

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• I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.

  Jens Voigt

  Ideas, Would Be, Woods

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• I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Italian, Piano, Wire

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• My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

  Peter Sagan

  Fun, Mean, People

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• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

  George Plimpton

  Book, Giving, Want

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• In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

  Chris Froome

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I'm in hog heaven.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Heaven, Hog, Bicycle

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• 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

  Sports, People, Mouths

  "Former Tour de France champ LeMond calls for UCI boss to quit", www.cnn.com. October 26, 2012.

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• My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.

  Emilio Estevez

  Brother, Father, Hollywood

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• As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

  Jonathan Lethem

  Growing Up, Children, White

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• A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

  John Tomac

  Race, Two, Effort

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• If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

  Laura Dern

  Careers, Would Be, Hairstyles

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

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Liars, Problem

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• 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

  Law, Ubiquity, Chinese

  "Why we cyclists need to strike a deal with pedestrians" by Boris Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2006.

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• 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

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

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• 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

  Believe, Generations, Want

  "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles - Q&A". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015.

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• 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

  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• 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

  Running, Ice Cream, Chocolate

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