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Cyclist Inspirational Quotes (102)

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You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Graeme Obree
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Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.
Victoria Pendleton
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor
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I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
David Millar
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I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
Clara Hughes
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The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.
Chris Hoy
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poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.
Dervla Murphy
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When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.
Chris Hoy
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By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
Chris Boardman
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Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
David Millar
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Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.
Chris Boardman
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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
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My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
Clara Hughes
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It was eleven more than neccessary.
Jacques Anquetil
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In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded the data is analysed.
Victoria Pendleton
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But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar
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My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
David Millar
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[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.
Dervla Murphy
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I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.
Bernard Hinault
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It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.
Dervla Murphy
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Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.
Jean de Gribaldy
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Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
Bernard Hinault
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Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling
Pat McQuaid
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There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.
Chris Boardman
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