Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
It’s not about whether you get knocked down. It’s about whether you get back up again.
I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.
If you train hard, you not only become hard yourself, you also become hard to overcome.
The winner blames himself. The loser blames others.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
I do not care if we lose every single match in the league as long as we win it
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
I have never made a prediction, nor will I ever do so.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
You must never let your worst enemy get into your head.
A football player will not do well if he can not run around Funen without breathing.
We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
The top of it all is then, I really wished him (Solbakken, ed.) To get that victory goal made and piss on those farmers. And I want to be allowed to say “piss on those farmers” because those spectators do not deserve another name.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Livingston wants to give it to Armstrong, but Armstrong would rather have it from behind by Hamilton.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
Now they just have to stop coming up with all sorts of weird ideas. You do not know what the next thing they think we should do is. Whether we’re going to run through fire or something. I sat and thought a bit about an idea one could give to them. Maybe the day after tomorrow or in a few days, they will do a stage where we do not know when there are goals. They say it is between 1 cm. and 300 km. and then all of a sudden it’s some man with a flag – maybe a dwarf. And then the stage is over.
I am a trained teacher. But apparently not good at pedagogy
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.