Greg LeMond Quotes

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience…
• Even good people are obliged to deceive.
• It never gets easier; you just go faster.
• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's…
• The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours?…
• I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame…
• I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport…
• I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
• I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
• I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
• It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
• You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
• When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say…
• The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse…
• It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.
• If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
• There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.
• Testing, we will never do enough of it.
• If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
• There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

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