Cycling Quotes - Page 8

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

  Stephen Roche

  Horse

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• Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

  Pat McQuaid

  Forgotten, Armstrong, Deserve

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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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• Cycling is not rocket science.

  Jens Voigt

  Rockets, Rocket Science

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Sports, Leisure Activities, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

  Jenson Button

  Running, Struggle, Mean

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• As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Coaching, Juniors

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• My favorite toast is rye toast.

  Paris Hilton

  My Favorite, Toasts

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• You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

  Deborah Bull

  Dance, Running, Ideas

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• I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.

  Arjun Rampal

  Sports, Running, Swimming

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• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Rocks, Climbing

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