Cycling Quotes

“Cycling is open to the whole world.”

“The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.”

“We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.”

“Training-wise, I don't have an extreme plan I stick to. I know what I have to do, I know the goal. But it's not really structured. That's the beauty of road cycling. It all depends on the conditions on the day and where you are in the world.”

“I do not plan to go on cycling until I am completely tired and finished.”

“My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.”

“Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.”

“Like most kids, I learnt to ride a bike by falling off and getting back on again. I was 6 and not disabled at the time. Once I became a crip a couple of years later, my joints ceased up and cycling became less about childhood fun and more like a regime of physiotherapy to help me maintain my mobility.”

“When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.”

“If you don't want to hit the gym, go cycling or skipping.”

“I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.”

“Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'”

“I just played football from an early age and didn't get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating - I'd like to have skated more, because it's so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back.”

“I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.”

“Cycling has been my passion throughout my life.”

“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.It could rain in a room this big.”

“I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.”

“you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.”

“Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.”

“Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.”