Cycling Quotes
I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.
I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.
Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.
Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I think there's a lot to be said.
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.
It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.
To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.
I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.
Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties.
I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.
What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.
I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.
I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.
Whether your sport of choice is running, cycling, kite surfing, etc. start moving and stay moving! It will give you energy and help you stay young.
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.
As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.
Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I'm in hog heaven.
on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.
To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra
It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun.
The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.
As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change.
you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.
Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.
We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.
Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
