Curse Quote by Greg LeMond

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.

— Mark Cavendish

I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.

— Mark Cavendish

I dislike the fact that we no longer have a Tour Champion.

— Patrick Cantlay

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

— Giles Smith

I wasn't expecting to have amazing results in my first year on tour and to be winning all the time.

— Ben Shelton

Everything being equal, no sickness or crashes, there's nobody who can beat Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France.

— Eddy Merckx

It is funny, I have the ability to win a stage in the Tour de France and I do win races that are the…

— Sam Bennett

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

— Greg LeMond

I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and…

— Johan Bruyneel

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

It's always the first Tour that is the most difficult to win.

— Eddy Merckx

Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to…

— Chris Froome