Cycling Quotes - Page 5

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

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

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

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.