Bike Quotes

• Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cycling, Doe, Records

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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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• There are no races. Only lotteries.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Cycling, Race, Lottery

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• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

  William Golding

  Life, Moving, Fall

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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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• Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Healing

  "Champion of her Sex - Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of her Remarkable Life to 'Nellie Bly'". Susan B. Anthony and Nellie Bly, New York World (p. 10), February 2, 1896.

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Dream, Kids

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Bikers

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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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Should Have

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• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Advice

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• If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Motorcycle

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

  Jacquie Phelan

  Cycling, People, Mountain

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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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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• When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

  Ned Overend

  Riding, Biking, Bicycle

  Ned Overend (1999). “Mountain Bike Like a Champion”, p.31, Rodale

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• I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

  Norman Rockwell

  Kids, Luxury, Should Have

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• 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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• Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Healing, Heart

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Om Books International

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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• Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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