Quotes About Cycling

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

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.

Crashes are the worst thing because your wounds stick to you, so you are sweating into your road rash all day and when you try to sleep your wounds are sticking to the bed sheets. It is part of the job and we know the risks.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be only one race.

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 was in my time, but as I see it cycling is more than the Tour de France.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

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

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.

That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.

If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.

You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.

It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.

When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.

It's fantastic news that the Aviva Women's Tour will continue in 2016.

During and after college, I did a lot of biking and bike touring.

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 on the Tour de France. I was riding all year.

It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.

Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.

What I've found in the last few tours is that it takes a week to hit the body. You're still on a high and your body gets into a rhythm. So, you almost have to de-train off it and keep riding the bike for a few days before you take a while off.