I do not plan to go on cycling until I am completely tired and finished. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Cycling always receives a bad name. It's always cycling that's attacked and other sports are never attacked. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Cycling is a sport of the people. How many people in the world have never been on a bike? Not many. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I've never been that bothered by numbers; the history of cycling evolves and follows its own course. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I do not want to continue cycling until I am 35. I want to make something else out of my life, too.… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
The only event that counts is the Tour, it's the only race that all the media go to. It's far more important… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus wasn't only… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
I didn't win any bunch sprints. But I won in solo breakaways, I won time-trials, I won in the mountains. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
I'm not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
I can tell you I preferred my era. Yes, they make much more money now but I preferred my cycling. The passion for racing.… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
It's difficult for him, carrying the name. But Axel is doing what he likes to do, and for me, if Axel's happy, I'm also… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
The most important thing is that you're the best of your generation and I can say that I was. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
I think I was three or four when I first rode and four when I first crashed. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share
