106 Quotes About Cycling

"My favorite toast is rye toast."

"My first instinct is to win, but it would also be nice to set the record victory mark and pass into cycling history,"

"Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure."

"I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination."

"At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it."

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

"Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!"

"Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London, and more and more people are taking it up, ... The number of cyclists has doubled over the last five years, while those killed or seriously injured ... has fallen by 40%."

"I'm the paté on the Universal cracker. I'm the grout holding your shower tiles on. I'm out of the saddle, sprinting up that hill and eating glazed donut bracelets off the right arm of Jesus."