Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.
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.
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants
There are no races. Only lotteries.
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
It was eleven more than neccessary.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
We believed ourselves indestructable. . . watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.