Cycling Quotes - Page 8

• Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

  David Millar

  Class, Way, Technique

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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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• Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.

  Lucy Powell

  School, Swimming, Years

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

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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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• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  Player, Energy, World

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.

  Hugh Laurie

  Rain, Moving, Race

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Sports, Years, Knows

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.

  Jan Ullrich

  Together, Helping, Stills

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• Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

  Pat McQuaid

  Forgotten, Armstrong, Deserve

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• If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

  Linda Perhacs

  Nursing, Long, Littles

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• In cycling, you can put all your money on one horse.

  Stephen Roche

  Horse

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• I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

  Richard Virenque

  Hero

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• Cycling is not rocket science.

  Jens Voigt

  Rockets, Rocket Science

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• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

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• I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

  Eric Heiden

  Sports, Squash, Found

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

  Carson Daly

  Thinking, Mtv, Trying

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• When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Running, Eye, Hands

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• I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Running, Zumba, Yoga

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• To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Winning, Years, Way

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• one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

  Dervla Murphy

  Journey, Becoming, Advantage

  Dervla Murphy (1995). “Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle”, HarperPerennial

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• My favorite toast is rye toast.

  Paris Hilton

  My Favorite, Toasts

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• Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

  Tennessee Williams

  Father, Home, Hands

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• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  Marianne Vos

  Riding, France, Thanks

  "Vos: Britain 'way ahead' of Netherlands for women in cycling". Interview with Felix Lowe, www.eurosport.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Messages

  Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

  Adrian Bell

  Kings, Oxford, Car

  "Cycling makes you look and feel great!". "Raise Your Game" with Colin Jackson, www.bbc.co.uk.

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