Eddy Merckx Quotes

• Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Long, Riding

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• Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Riding Your Bike, Cyclists

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

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  Pain, Winning, Cycling

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• There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.

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  Hands, Important, Emphasis

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• Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

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  Men, People, Facts

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• In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

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  Strong, Race, Wind

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• I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

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  School, Cycling

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• I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

  Eddy Merckx

  School, Cycling, Bicycle

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