Quotes About Cycling

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

I remember cycling down in my hometown Kanpur twice in two days for eight kilometres to see 'Ardh Satya.' I loved its rawness at a time when everyone was doing potboilers.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

I was trying to break world records in cycling.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

I wanted to merge two worlds that were very important to me. Being able to raise money for Dropping Dimes through the sale of custom biking kits was the perfect plan.

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

You've got all that 130 km. of being totally focused, and as soon as you cross the line, it takes a few seconds to realise what's happened.

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying to have sex with the sky.

The history of modern doping began with the cycling craze of the 1890s and the six-day races that lasted from Monday morning to Saturday night. Extra caffeine, peppermint, cocaine and strychnine were added to the riders' black coffee. Brandy was added to tea. Cyclists were given nitroglycerine to ease breathing after sprints. This was a dangerous business, since these substances were doled out without medical supervision.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Ja sam biciklista. Možda sam iznad svega biciklista. (...) Ali ?ovek je kao biciklista prinu?en da bude izopštenik. Prinu?en je da živi na društvenoj margini, nasuprot ustaljenom saobra?ajnom sistemu u kome su svi motorizovani, ?ak i zdravi ljudi.

I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.

I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling is.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.