Stephen Roche quotes

“I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.”
-- Stephen Roche

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“While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.”
-- Stephen Roche

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“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.”
-- Stephen Roche

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“In cycling, you can put all your money on one horse.”
-- Stephen Roche

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“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.”

“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”

“My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.”

“As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.”

“My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’”