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.
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.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
We just have to go out and shout as loud as we can
His shiny ice flashes like the sword of Athens in the setting French evening sun.
If you brake, you don’t win.
It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
He treats the bike like an old mean bitch that deserves it.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
I knew we had to drive on cobblestones, but I didn’t know they had thrown them down from a helicopter.
Isn’t it great to see so many men in bike shorts?
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Livingston wants to give it to Armstrong, but Armstrong would rather have it from behind by Hamilton.
Shut up legs
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.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
Virenque is riding. He (Aldag, ed.) stands perfectly still. He stands still as a German tree in the Harz.
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