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- The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
- But finally the last thing I'll say to the people who don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics. I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. But this is one hell of a race. This is a great sporting event and you should stand around and believe it. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets - this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it.
- Lance Armstrong, Podium farewell speech, Tour de France, July 24, 2005
- The bicycle, surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
- Christopher Morley
- The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
- John Howard (not the Australian Prime Minister.)
- When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
- This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing the airy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equaled that birdlike freedom.
- Elizabeth Bowen, on acquiring a bicycle at age 13
- Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
- The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
- Is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
- A bicycle does get you there and more … And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.
- A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.
- The eye of the hurricane is back in Lance, and the storm is aiming directly for the Ullrich trailer park.
- Enough with this Sunday stroll . . . let's hurt a little bit.
- The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew--and live through it.
- The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub.
- Cycling is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
- Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym.
- Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws into your muscles.
- To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain....at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport.
- Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
