Cycling Quote by Eddy Merckx Download Open image “The Tour is the No. 1 event in cycling.” — Eddy Merckx ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cycling Event Tour
The only event that counts is the Tour, it's the only race that all the media go to. It's far more important than it… — 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 only one… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next. — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line… — Chris Froome Copy Share Image
It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule. — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time. — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken… — Miguel Indurain Copy Share Image
I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is… — Geraint Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by… — George Strait 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I always had and I still have that special desire in me to be the best. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
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 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
The most important thing is that you're the best of your generation and I can say that I was. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
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 Image
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“The range and diversity of...places in England with character or charm is often overlooked. A bicycle more than anything else helps one both to… — Frederick Alderson Copy Share Image
I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I… — Magnus Backstedt Copy Share Image
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Ive had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could… — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel. — Thomas Voeckler Copy Share Image
With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that's what I love to do, to be competitive. — Oksana Masters Copy Share Image
