As long as I breathe, I attack.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
Shut up it was blowing out there and there was also a Spaniard who did not have learned that with not pissing against the wind. So he pissed and I got his piss on my leg. So I was not entirely happy with that.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
Shut up legs
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
If you brake, you don’t win.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
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.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
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I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
When I go to bed at night, I hope they are gone the next morning, but they are still there the next morning.
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
Livingston wants to give it to Armstrong, but Armstrong would rather have it from behind by Hamilton.
We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
We just have to go out and shout as loud as we can
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.