Quotes About Cycling

I've started cycling everywhere on my electric bike; it's the best decision I ever made. Best part? The bike does some of the work for you!

Cycling is low-impact, which is why people cycle into their 70s or 80s, but track cycling means hard gym work and crashes.

I'm a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

I had only been cycling for a year before I went to Rio.

It was cycling that got me off drugs. I'd get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until very late at night, day after day, until it was out of the system.

Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

But sometimes a person's brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you're inside that loop, you can't see past it. You'll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they're outside the loop.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

I used to walk down a street and nobody would notice me. Now, I get stopped all the time; people saying, 'well done'. It makes me really, really proud to have done my bit to help make cycling a little bit more popular.

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

My work is my passion so it's impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn't see - riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.

I am really looking forward to being present in my first three-week race, the Giro d'Italia, a huge and prestigious event that captures one's imagination.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

After his success in the Tour of Italy and Tour de France in the same year, Pantani certainly made mistakes - but he was targeted by Italian justice who never let him go. I believe it was that that destroyed him.

I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.

Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.

He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

Lizzie Armitstead

Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.