“Tour de France riders need to eat the equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling. — Bernard Hinault Copy Share Image
I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is funny, I have the ability to win a stage in the Tour de France and I do win races that… — Sam Bennett Copy Share Image
“the Tour de France wasn’t decided by God or genes; it was decided by effort, by strategy. Whoever worked the hardest and… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everything being equal, no sickness or crashes, there's nobody who can beat Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar. — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault Copy Share Image
I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history. — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
After his success in the Tour of Italy and Tour de France in the same year, Pantani certainly made mistakes - but… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I have decided to give up competition. I cannot train properly for the Tour de France which I had hoped to ride… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you want a lot of endorsements then you'd pick the Olympics. But I've had a passion for the Tour since I… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me as a kid that I would win 30 stages of the Tour de France I probably wouldn't… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. — John Tesh Copy Share Image
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'm always glued to the Tour de France, with cycling being close to wheelchair racing in terms of technology and how we… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
I cycle like a fiend, but I can't even sit through the highlights of the Tour de France. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again,… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the… — David Millar Copy Share Image
The Tour de France is a different kettle of fish to what I do, but it doesn't matter what you do -… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again.… — Greg LeMond 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
