A biography for Eddy Merckxhasn’t been written yet.
“Winning big Tours and stage races is often about pain management.”
“The more big teams we have the more competition we have.”
“No doctor is going to tell me I can't finish the Tour. I will never give up.”
“We were not rich. We did not go to the Cote d'Azur or skiing. Our only vacation was to the North Sea. I had to pay for my bicycle every month, but we always had food.”
“I raced from 1 February to 31 October every year, competed for everything.”
“No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean.”
“The only event that counts is the Tour, it's the only race that all the media go to. It's far more important than it was in my time, but as I see it cycling is more than the Tour de France.”
“Miracles can sometimes happen in cycling.”