Jacques Anquetil quotes

“There are no races. Only lotteries.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“It was eleven more than neccessary.”
-- Jacques Anquetil

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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”

“Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific

“He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.”

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”

“Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.”

“I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.”

“If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.”