If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.
Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.
It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back.
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.
There are no races. Only lotteries.
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.
Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!
All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.
Everything is bicycle.
When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!