Miguel Indurain quotes
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“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.”
-- Miguel IndurainSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.”
-- Miguel IndurainSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.”
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“I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.”
-- Miguel Indurain -
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“My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.”
-- Miguel IndurainSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.”
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“If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.”
-- Miguel IndurainSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.”
-- Miguel Indurain -
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“I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.”
-- Miguel Indurain
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“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”
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Source : Twitter post from Oct 23, 2014
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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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