Quotes About Cycling

When I won my first Tour, the second-placed rider was some 18 minutes behind.

I earned more than other riders, but even in my best year I never grossed more than about $300,000.

Riding for QuickStep was a dream of mine from an early age. I couldn't let this opportunity go.

Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.

I remember climbing Mont Ventoux at the end of the day, and it was so, so hard. You have already three, four hours in your legs of cycling, and then you have to climb probably the hardest mountain on the course. And then you have to ride back to your car and pack up your stuff.

No, riding in the Peloton is more frightening than riding in the park.

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.

Luca loved his family and friends, his town and country; he loved his work, but it was cycling that kept him alive. It was as essential to him as breathing.

Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.

I always thought Mario Cipollini was difficult to beat but I think Cipollini would have found it very hard against Cavendish.

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.

I was a more aggressive rider than Armstrong. I would attack more often. He waits for the other guys, then counter-attacks.

I've been involved in cycling all my life and at a high level for 20 years. It consumes your every waking minute whether you are aware of it or not: your last training session, your next session, what you are eating next. It is a passion.

I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.

It's hard to put into words, really, how proud I am and great it is to represent Wales because, in cycling, it's a little-known country, so it's nice to put it on the map.

I get home from work at six or seven. When I'm busy, I set my alarm for three, get out of bed at quarter past three. I have a cup of tea and read a magazine and take the dogs for a walk up the lane. Go through my text messages and reply to anything that needs it, then get my biking gear on ready to cycle to work.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.

Some entrepreneur needs to make a better bike seat.

The only thing that I can do - and the only thing that I've always done - is to ride my bike fast and get my head down and control the things I can control.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

I can't support bike lanes.

At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.