Bicycler Quotes

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me.

Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of waiting for it. You have to go out and force it. You need to go out and take life, and shape your life and destiny the way you need it. I hope I can pass that message along.

I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!

My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.

It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.

I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists.

A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike.

When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

Cycling is not rocket science.

I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes.

I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric — it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.

Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

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.

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

I could kill Vino for all this doping crap.

Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

I'm in pain but I'm confident I'll feel better tomorrow.

Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch

Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.

From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.

Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?

With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.

...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.

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

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win.

If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me.

Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

Shut up body and do what I tell you

Uphill, downhill, I like that.