Quotes and Sayings About Cycling

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
-- Desmond Tutu

#Stupid #Men #Cycling

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.
-- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

#Issues #Cycling #Land

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
-- Eddy Merckx

#Cycling #Insirational #Grades

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing
-- Eddy Merckx

#Pain #Winning #Cycling

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
-- Eddy Merckx

#School #Cycling

I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.
-- Eddy Merckx

#School #Cycling

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.
-- Elizabeth West

#Men #Cycling #Insirational

My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.
-- Emilio Estevez

#Brother #Father #Cycling

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
-- Eric Bana

#Exercise #Cycling #Chosen

I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.
-- Eric Heiden

#Sports #Cycling #Squash

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Wine #Cycling #Race

Cycling is suffering.
-- Fausto Coppi

#Cycling #Suffering

I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like
-- Freddie Mercury

#Cycling #Want #Bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...
-- Freddie Mercury

#Believe #Cycling #Want

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
-- George Plimpton

#Book #Cycling #Giving

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
-- Gordon Brown

#Cycling #Our Society #Committed

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.
-- Greg LeMond

#Struggle #Cycling #Excellence

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
-- Greg LeMond

#Sports #Liars #Cycling

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
-- Greg LeMond

#Optimistic #Cycling

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering
-- Greg LeMond

#Thinking #Keys #Cycling

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.
-- Greg LeMond

#Cycling #People #Racing

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
-- Greg LeMond

#Sports #Cycling #People

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
-- Guy Ritchie

#Cycling #Done #London

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.
-- Guy Verhofstadt

#Character #Cycling #Sometimes

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
-- H. G. Wells

#Funny #Cycling #Race

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.
-- H. G. Wells

#Flower #Exercise #Cycling

I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!
-- Henri Desgrange

#Cycling #People #Giving

It was eleven more than neccessary.
-- Jacques Anquetil

#Cycling #Eleven

[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.
-- James L. Jones

#Morning #Cycling #Mind

Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.
-- Jan Ullrich

#Cycling #Together #Helping