Cycling Quotes · Page 5

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

— Henri Desgrange

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

— Ben Saunders

With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that's what I love to do, to be competitive.

— Oksana Masters

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

— Susan B. Anthony

My aim is sustainable fat loss and so I've opted for carb cycling.

— Spencer Matthews

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

— Jim Lampley

My buddy lost about 100 pounds cycling. He took me on a 31-mile loop. I was hooked.

— Erika Christensen

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

— Susan B. Anthony

The bottom line is that most cycling kit exists for a reason. The padded shorts, for example, might look silly, but if…

— Chris Hoy

I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first…

— Robin Farina

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four…

— Greg LeMond

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in…

— David Millar

“To do is to be – Aristotle To be or not to be – Shakespeare To be is to do – Jean-Paul…

— Alannah Foley

It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension…

— Paul Rankin

I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because…

— Kristin Armstrong

“I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were…

— Lance Armstrong

It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been…

— Gwen Jorgensen

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode…

— Kristin Armstrong

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of…

— Tom Hodgkinson

It's tough though because of the whole part about getting sponsors and people out to watch women's cycling. I think the only…

— Kristin Armstrong

US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and…

— Kristin Armstrong

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…

— Michelle Alexander

There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports…

— Chris Boardman

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of…

— Louis J. Halle

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

— Bernard Hinault

I was six when I saw 'ET.' It changed my life. I wasn't interested in cycling at all before.

— Chris Hoy

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

— Aprilynne Pike

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you…

— Curtis Jackson

Carrick has a big cycling culture and I would compare it to the Isle of Man in the UK.

— Sam Bennett

“A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.”

— Bear Grylls

“Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.”

— Tom Doig

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

— Mat Hoffman

The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

— Samuel Beckett

When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

— Minka Kelly

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love…

— Guy Ritchie

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

— Bradley Wiggins

I am sure in the long run cycling will continue to grow and flourish - not just in the U.K. but all…

— Chris Hoy

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

— Greg LeMond

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

— Lance Armstrong

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton