Top 264 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Cyclists - Page 5

There are two things I eat that I know I shouldn't: chocolate and ice cream. You only live once, so I am going to eat chocolate.

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

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

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?

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

I know when the racing starts everything will calm down and the legs will be there. It's in the days before you have to keep your mind occupied.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

I started racing when I was 14 and remember guys like Denis Dunne and Martin Hanrahan dropping me by 10 minutes.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.

I love attacking and racing aggressively, and obviously it's a big bonus when you're making an attack and you look around and you see the guys making faces because they're in pain, that just gives you that extra little percent to make them hurt even more.

What I've found in the last few tours is that it takes a week to hit the body. You're still on a high and your body gets into a rhythm. So, you almost have to de-train off it and keep riding the bike for a few days before you take a while off.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

In the cycling world I am... okay, it sounds arrogant, but I am pretty high up. And I am a good athlete. But it is not recognised in Ireland.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

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.

I want to win wherever I race, the team's invested a lot in me.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

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