Cycling Quotes - Page 4

• In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Character, Sometimes, Enough

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• The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

  Samuel Beckett

  Nasty, Ill, Turns

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there's no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What's around the next corner? Who cares? You're flyin'!

  Cadel Evans

  Sports, Simple, Race

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• I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Thinking, Race

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• Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Land, Issues, Support

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• The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Couple, Thinking, Hands

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• I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Lucky, Tactics

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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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• I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

  Chris Froome

  Racing, Body, Hard

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• Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

  David Byrne

  Joy, Faster, Transport

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Interview with Jeremy Deller, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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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, Swiftness, Riding A Bicycle

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• I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.

  Chris Hoy

  Running, Team, Race

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.

  Thomas Voeckler

  Pain, Waiting, Suffering

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• There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

  Greg LeMond

  People, Racing, Happens

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

  Jack London

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.

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• I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Together Again, Relax, Riding

  "Build your own bike" by Patrick Keneally, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2007.

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Riding A Bicycle, Cyclists

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

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• As long as I breathe, I attack.

  Bernard Hinault

  Long, Insirational, Breathe

  "P Is For Peloton: The A-Z Of Cycling" by Suze Clemitson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2015.

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• Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

  Eddy Merckx

  Riding Your Bike, Cyclists, Bikers

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• The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Keys, Suffering

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Effort

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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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, Perfect

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• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Country, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1932). “The History of the Russian Revolution ...”

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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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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

  Helen Keller

  Life And Love, Tolerance, Brain

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.224, 谷月社

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