Cyclists Quotes - Page 2

• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Cancer, Second Chance, Survivor

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• When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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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, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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

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• When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

  Iris Murdoch

  Healing, Heart, Men

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

  Frances E. Willard

  Horse, Cycling, Swiftness

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• The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

  Ivan Illich

  Animal, Men, Cycling

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• Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

  Flann O'Brien

  Inspirational, Cycling, Watches

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cyclists are a pain in the ass.

  Rob Ford

  Pain, Ass

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• Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

  Gino Bartali

  Real, Hero, Heart

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• Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of waiting for it. You have to go out and force it. You need to go out and take life, and shape your life and destiny the way you need it. I hope I can pass that message along.

  Jens Voigt

  Destiny, Self, Hands

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• I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Thinking, Twenties, Sticks

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• US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and I'm not sure how much it's been hit, is camps for people that are involved in other sports. Why not put on camps for high school kids that are cross-country runners, because those are the some of the best cyclists.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Country, School

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• I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.

  Paul Smith

  Country, Adventure, Cycling

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I would love to end my European campaign with the World Championship stripes on my back. But everything else that I have in my mind right now is to continue working with and having my little camps for women cyclists.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Mind, Stripes, Campaigns

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• Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.

  Paul Ramadge

  Sports, Heart, Long

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• Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, I’ve seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they don’t care. We can’t afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

  Vandana Shiva

  Hurt, Past, Car

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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

  Robert James Thomson

  Looks, Pedestrians, Drivers

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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  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

  Enjoy, Hood, Bounce

  Twitter post from May 10, 2012

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• In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

  David Millar

  Eating, Restaurants, Stardom

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• 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

  Gears, Way, Messengers

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id 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

  Thinking, Cycling, Mtv

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• 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

  Cycling, Space, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Hypocrite, Years, Together

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