Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Anquetil

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French cyclist Jacques Anquetil.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Jacques Anquetil

Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.

There are no races. Only lotteries.
To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water. — © Jacques Anquetil
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants
It was eleven more than neccessary.
You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.
Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.
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