Cyclists Quotes

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

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• Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Riding Your Bike, Bikers

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Long, Riding

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Pain, Winning, Cycling

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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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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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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, Cycling

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

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• It never gets easier; you just go faster.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Greg LeMond, Mark Hom (2014). “The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance”, p.122, Academic Press

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

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Bikers

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• I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

  Mark Cavendish

  Rain, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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• I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  "Jen and Justin Show Their Love in Paris". extratv.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2010.

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Should Have

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

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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

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• Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

  A. S. Byatt

  Hate, Mirrors, Self

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• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Cancer, Second Chance, Survivor

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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, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

  Iris Murdoch

  Healing, Heart, Men

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

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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, Cycling

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• When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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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, Cycling, Swiftness

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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, Cycling

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

  Flann O'Brien

  Inspirational, Cycling, Watches

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