51 Quotes by Greg LeMond

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

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

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 know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.

(Training) doesn't get easier; you just get faster

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.