Cycling Quotes

Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

As long as I breathe, I attack.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

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.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

The finest mode of transport known to man.

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

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

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.