Quotes about Cycling
“I sometimes used to sit on my bike, weeping with the pain” Eddy Merckx - The Cannibal
“It never gets easier, you just go faster” Greg LeMond
Before Miguel Indurain was finally tailed off on a mountain stage of the 1996 tour, and he was defeated for the first time in six years, he had been asked, speculatively, how he expected he would meet the fact of his own demise as the best rider in the world. He said ‘when I stop winning, it will be a liberation which will put an end to some of my suffering.’ And it did. Indurain quit the sport at the end of 1996. We’re at the opposite ends of the same relationship with our bodies, Indurain and I. His mind didn’t let his body stop until there was nothing left. Me? I’ll know to quit when I’ve had the best day I know I can ever have. I envy Indurain not so much for his talent, but for his epiphany. http://www.rapha.cc/index.php?page=119
“Belgium is better. The rain is warmer.” Tom Boonen when asked if he liked California better after winning in the rain during the 2008 TOC.