Cycling quotes : Impress (or annoy) your riding buddies at the next cafe stop with one of these:
Here are some amazing quotes about cycling that I have collected. There are a lot of famous names here’s from all walks of life, some of which will both surprise and inspire you.
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic gold medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you’re missing the essence of the sport.” —Scott Martin
“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride” – Eddy Merckx
“A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.” -James E. Starrs
“There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!” -Mehmet Murat İldan.
“You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you’re glad to be there” – Richard Virenque, retired French pro racer
“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” -Grant Petersen
“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades” – Eddy Merckx
“In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.” -Jacques Torres
“To me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike, I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” Mark Cavendish, British pro racer
“Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless.” -Zapata Espinoza
“When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it in there” – Chris McCormack
“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.” -Tom Kunich
“Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists… to a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your life.” — Tommy Godwin, English long-distance cyclist
“Beyond pain there is a whole universe of more pain.” -Jens Voigt
“My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.” – Jon Snow
“Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.” — Kristin Armstrong, American cyclist
“Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists…vto a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your life.”-Tommy Godwin
“My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. Peter Golkin
“When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!” – Jens Voigt
“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” — John Howard, US cyclist
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” – H .G. Wells
“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” — Heinz Stücke, German long-distance touring cyclist
“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.” -Ann Strong
“It never gets easier, you just get faster” – Greg LeMond
“The finest mode of transport known to man.” -Adam Hart Davis
“Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” — Hugh Pearman, British author
“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.” -Susan B. Anthony
“You can’t get good by staying home. If you want to get fast, you have to go where the fast guys are” – Steve Larsen
“Cycling isn’t a game, it is a sport, tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.” -Jean de Gribaldy
“The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.” — Louis Baudry de Saunier, 19th-century French author
“My fear isn’t crashing this bike at 85 miles per hour and losing my skin. It is sitting in my chair at 90 and thinking, ‘I wish I’d done more.’” –Graeme Obree
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike” – John F Kennedy
“When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it in there.” -Chris McCormack
“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.” — Alan Bennett, British playwright
“You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.” -Laura Trott
“Cyclists see considerably more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to” – Dr K.K. Doty
“The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.” — Iris Murdoch, Irish author
“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.” -Greg LeMond
“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke” – Scott Stoll
“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” – Desmond Tutu
“And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” -Keith Mills
“Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike.” -Felicity Luckey
“Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” — Mark Twain, US author and humourist
“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
“Your cycling goals should be out of reach but never out of sight.” -Felicity Luckey
“The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most” – Eddy Merckx
“Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” — Bob Weir, Grateful Dead singer, songwriter and guitarist
“The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen.” -Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” — Elizabeth West, US author
“Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers—those people ride a bike.” -Wolfgang Sachs
“Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling” – Jean de Gribaldy
“Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it.” -Hallman
“It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic gold medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you’re missing the essence of the sport” – Scott Martin
“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love.” — Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
“I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.” -Michelle Pfeiffer
“When it’s hurting you, that’s when you can make a difference” – Eddy Merckx
“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” -Emo Philips
“You are one ride away from a good mood.” — Sarah Bentley, British cyclist
“My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one. I’d like to ride my bike all day long but I’ve got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.” -Bill Walton
“As a kid I had a dream — I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.” — John Lennon, British musician
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
“I worry about kids today not having time to build a treehouse or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.” -John Lasseter
“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” — William Saroyan, Nobel prize winner
“If your day job keeps you from riding as much as you’d like, you aren’t as fast as you think you are.” -Knolly Bikes
“One of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle.” — Michael Palin, British actor
“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” -Eddy Merckx
“If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don’t go for it, you definitely won’t win” – Jens Voigt
“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” -John Howard
“As long as I breathe, I attack” – Bernard Hinault
“The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it” – Doug Bradbury
“Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn’t matter where you are, when you’re on the saddle, you’re taken away.” – Doug Donaldson
“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” — William Saroyan, Nobel prize winner
“It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over.” -Colman Mc Cartly
“If you brake, you don’t win.” — Mario Cipollini, retired Italian pro racer
“If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” — Professor Carl Sagan, US scientist
“You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t.” -Keith Mills
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.” -Kristin Armstrong
“Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers — those people ride a bike.” — Wolfgang Sachs, German author and academic
“When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you’re not riding hard.” -George Bush
“You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you’re glad to be there” – Richard Virenque
“To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world” – Mark Cavendish
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” -Claude Pepper
“A bicycle is the finest mode of transport known to man.” — Adam Hart-Davis, English inventor
“The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.” -Louis Baudry de Saunier
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” — Helen Keller, US political activist
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” -Helen Keller
“Ride a bike. Ride a bike. Ride a bike” – Fausto Coppi, on how to improve
“When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.” — George W. Bush, former US President
“I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.” -David Millar
“Good morale in cycling comes from good legs” Sean Yates
“To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.” -Major Taylor
“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity” — Lord Charles Beresford, British MP
“Never use your face as a brake pad.” -Jake Watson
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” -Christopher Morley
“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” -David Attenborough
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them” – Ernest Hemingway
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein
“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels” – Heinz Stucke
“Bicycles are the indicator species of a community, like shellfish in a bay.” — P. Martin Scott
“Now I walk everywhere I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.” -Della Reese
“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do” – Miguel Indurain
“You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” Keith Mills
“My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move through the crowd.” -John Pomfret
“In Mendrisio I felt it – the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It’s a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there’s no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What’s around the next corner? Who cares? You’re flyin’!” Cadel Evans on winning the World Championships
“Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.” -Chip Brown
