Best 184 quotes in «cycling quotes» category

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

[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.

Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

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.

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

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

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.

[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

Cycling is not rocket science.

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.

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

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

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

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.

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

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

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'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.

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.

I guess I just have bigger ovaries.

If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

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

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

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.

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.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

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.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

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

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.