Great Cycling Quotes

Anyone know a good resource for cycling quotes, more specifically one's that relate to road cycling?

This site is pretty good.

Have you tried the Internet?

Ride it like you stole it!!!

This site is pretty good.

ha haha cnt!

Have you tried the Internet?

I've heard about that - is it any good?

I've heard about that - is it any good?

Not really, but it is cheap.

I've heard about that - is it any good?

Isnt what we are using called internet or something?

"Ow, my bollocks"
Me, Runnymede Rockets BMX track, 1993

Seriously though, Roleur magazine may have something useful.

This site is pretty good.

yeah - funny. I'm not a retard, I can use google. Just not had much luck, same things come up again and again.

Same old shit - guess what I tried google and don't tell me to UTFS.. I just thought someone on here might be helpful instead of jumping at the chance to say something facetious

Utfs

Seriously though, wtf was wrong with the first hit that came up?

Or the second link?

How many fuckign quotes do you need?

There goes my be nice for 240 posts shit.

Not really, but it is cheap.

yeah apparently it's nowhere near as good as "the web"

web was last year, i remember when the net did it all for you

Utfs

Seriously though, wtf was wrong with the first hit that came up?

Or the second link?

How many fuckign quotes do you need?

There goes my be nice for 240 posts shit.

Just the one - got to be the right one though.

It just wasn't what I was looking for - I'm not after what Einstein/Hemmingway/Conan Doyle thought of "the bicycle" .. I want quotes from racers or about racing. Maybe I wasn't specific enough.

Did you even look at teh second link? It's got Lemond, etc...

"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 is a matter of time."
Greg LeMond

"It never gets easier, you just go faster."
Greg LeMond

"I don't have any more bad days. I have good days and I have great days. Cancer no longer consumes my life, my thoughts, or my behavior. If I have a tough week, all I have to do is sit back and reflect on what I went through, and look at my son, and things don't bother me anymore. I'm not only alive, but I'm responsible for another life, the life of my child. When you almost lose your life to cancer, and then win the Tour de France, and then become a father, it grows you up fast. I'm more thoughtful, and I resist saying the first thing that comes out of my mouth. Before, all of my questions were directed toward the "me," as in "Why me?" or, "What are my chances?" But now I've started looking at other people."
Lance Armstrong

"My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will."
Lance Armstrong

"The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step...."
Gilberto Simoni commenting on Wladimir Belli punching a heckler (Simoni's nephew) on the last climb of the 84th Giro d'Italia. Belli was expelled from the race.

"...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly."
Gilberto Simoni's 18 year old nephew's comments after Belli punched him and was disqualified from the Giro d'Italia.

"We know that the rider was provoked, but we are forced to apply the regulations. That involves a fine and the immediate exclusion from the race. The gesture is inexcusable."
Giro d'Italia's Race Jury President about the decision to expel Wladimir Belli.

"There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that."
Eddy Merckx, Belgian, who won Tour de France five times.

"If you were a spectator on one of the mountain passes today, the super-light bikes would be little different in appearance from the machines of years ago, pedaled by earlier heroes, Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, LeMond, Roche. They would look like the bikes our dads rode when we were kids. But the Tour is a commercial race, and innovation must be given its place on the catwalk, or in this case the vélodrome...."
James Waddington, Bad to the Bone

"The riders come out, knights for the tournament, neck to thigh in slippery lycra with the sheen of deep space condoms, faired helmets on their heads like the glans from another galaxy and neoprene pixyboots to slide the air around their feet, mounted on gaudily caparisoned donkeys — the carbon fibre monocoque monoblade."
James Waddington, Bad to the Bone

"The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community."
Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune, 1895

"What was supposed to be a summer of fun on the bike turned into a year, then two years. It certainly wasn't a calculated plan to have a career as a cyclist."
Derek Bouchard-Hall

"There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose."
Chris Witty, speedskater-turned-cyclist of Park City, Utah, on competing in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Her 1998 Winter Olympics performances garnered a silver at 1,000 meters and bronze at 1,500 meters.

"There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like."
Lance Armstrong, from "It's Not About the Bike"

"We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether."
Lance Armstrong, from "It's Not About the Bike"

"Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws into your muscles."
Scott Martin

"To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain....at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport. Without pain, there's no adversity. Without adversity, no challenge. Without challenge, no improvement. No improvement, no sense of accomplishment and no deep-down joy. Might as well be playing Tiddly-Winks."
Scott Martin

"The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering."
Roland Barthes, French philosopher, pioneer of semiotics, sometimes windbag and full-time bicycle racing fan, describes Mont Ventoux, a 13-mile clilmb above the treeline into a desolation of strewn rock, in the Tour de France.

"Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell."
Roland Barthes, French philosopher and bicycle racing fan, author of Mythologies, describes Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France.

"Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain."
Lance Armstrong, American cycling king, wearing Tour de France yellow jersey on the Ventoux Stage, 2000.

Looks pretty fucking race oriented to me.

You're welcome!

Did you even look at teh second link? It's got Lemond, etc...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"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 is a matter of time."

          Greg LeMond

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"It never gets easier, you just go faster."

          Greg LeMond [/FONT]

YES mate I did.. I looked at ALL of them for about an hour before I posted here. I just thought that someone here might know somewhere thats a good resource that doesn't show in the first 3 pages of google search.

*leaves room to get a bag of popcorn

Look, it's not our fault that racing cyclists aren't Shakespeare.

Have you tried reading "The Rider" or "Roadie"? You can buy them from shops or on the Internet. I'm sure someone here could tell you how to find them.

it needs to be short - because I have to set it by hand in the typeface that my avatar is in..

and no, none of the one's like "It never gets easier, you just go faster." are quite right.

Look, it's not our fault that racing cyclists aren't Shakespeare.

Have you tried reading "The Rider" or "Roadie"? You can buy them from shops or on the Internet. I'm sure someone here could tell you how to find them.

yes, actually that is helpful. I'll run out an find one on oxford street somewhere.

I'm not blaming anyone or saying it's anyone's "fault", but was just asking for some help/suggestions.

YES mate I did.. I looked at ALL of them for about an hour before I posted here. I just thought that someone here might know somewhere thats a good resource that doesn't show in the first 3 pages of google search.

If you seriously spent an hour looking at google quote results do you think the quotes left over would be worth documenting?

Try narrowing your search..
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Courtesy of Mark Cavendish, fast, and full of graceful arrogance:

''When journalists at the Tour de France ask me if I am the best sprinter, I answer 'Yes', and that's seen as arrogance, but if they don't ask me, I don't say I'm the best sprinter in the world.''

''The fact is, you look at the replays of my wins at the Tour, and I'm the fastest sprinter. I'm stating a fact. It's not just me saying 'I'm the fastest sprinter' without backing it up - I'm stating a fact, you know? I don't see how that can be seen as arrogance when it's just telling the truth. But people can take me as they want? I don't give a shit really.''

''The others were all trying to save themselves for the team time trial. We were the only sprint team willing to take responsibility. All the other teams are riding like they're juniors and if they want to behave that way then they get results like juniors.''

yes, actually that is helpful. I'll run out an find one on oxford street somewhere.

I'm not blaming anyone or saying it's anyone's "fault", but was just asking for some help/suggestions.

Which you received and then had a whinge about, before (finally) qualifying what you actually wanted. Help request fail.

"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore."

Eddy Merckx

http://www.cyclingnews.com/
Read the Rider's Diaries section?

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=interviews
Interviews section

etc..

you get the idea..