Cycling Quotes - Page 7

• What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.

  Kristin Armstrong

  College, America, Degrees

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• If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

  Ralph Nader

  War, Oil, Sound

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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, World

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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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

  Space, Would Be, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

  Clare Balding

  Swimming, Games, Two

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• What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Thinking, What Matters

  "Lance Armstrong says turn back time and he would 'probably' dope again". Interview with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. January 27, 2015.

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• Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Passion, Knees, Surgery

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• Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are sent the message in countless ways that they, too, are going to prison one way or another. We cannot build healthy, functioning schools within a context where there is no funding available because it's going to building prisons and police forces.

  Michelle Alexander

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Real, School, College

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• The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

  J. B. Jackson

  Greek, Violence, Normal

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• I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Gold

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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 think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Usa

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Doe, Records, Chasing

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• The way the Europeans work, most girls get paid by their federation; their country pays them. Essentially the federations say go represent our country, race on whatever trade team you want, and here's your money. So you don't really make you're money on trade teams. Europeans make money through their country's federation. There's not a lot of money for women in cycling in Europe either.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Girl, Country, Team

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• I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wish, Trying, Phrases

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• Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.

  Gary Kemp

  Beautiful, Wife, Mountain

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, People, Paid

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• I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Athlete, College

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• In high school you just kind of go with it, you belong to a sport and you're lettering and there is a very social part. With cycling, a lot of people will steer away because you can't letter, and lettering is still cool and it's very important for scholarships and other stuff.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, School, People

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• It's tough though because of the whole part about getting sponsors and people out to watch women's cycling. I think the only way that women can really work it is that we have to work our way more into these big grand tours that the men have like the Tour de Georgia, Tour of Utah, and Tour of California.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Utah

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• Because cycling is a repetitive front to back motion you never go side to side with your legs, the muscles and joints are really going to protect themselves when you have arthritis. So continually working on opening things up helps to alleviate pain.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Pain, Legs, Joints

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• There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clouds, Land, Rainbow

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.72, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

  Lucy Powell

  Team, Example, Olympics

  "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

  David Millar

  Team, Simple, Risk

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