Shut up legs
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
As long as I breathe, I attack.
When I go to bed at night, I hope they are gone the next morning, but they are still there the next morning.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
Livingston wants to give it to Armstrong, but Armstrong would rather have it from behind by Hamilton.
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
Shut up it was blowing out there and there was also a Spaniard who did not have learned that with not pissing against the wind. So he pissed and I got his piss on my leg. So I was not entirely happy with that.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
If you brake, you don’t win.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
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We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
We just have to go out and shout as loud as we can
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.