Cycling Quotes

• I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

  Freddie Mercury

  Riding, Want, Bicycle

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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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• 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, Riding Your Bike

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Race, Car

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Pain, Winning, Suffering

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• One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

  Michael Palin

  Important, Riding A Bicycle, Bike Riding

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• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

  Desmond Tutu

  Stupid, Men, Fishing

  "11 Pieces Of Wisdom From Desmond Tutu To Inspire Change Makers In 2017" by Brian Rusch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2016.

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• Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Sports, Lifestyle

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

  David Attenborough

  Bicycle, Ifs, I Can

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• The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Race, Sun

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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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, Riding Your Bike

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

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

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Bikers, Cyclists

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Long, Riding, Littles

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Riding Your Bike, Bikers

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• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Origin Of Life

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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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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• Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

  Miguel Indurain

  Pain, Race, Suffering

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• Cycling is suffering.

  Fausto Coppi

  Suffering

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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