Cycling Quotes

"It never gets easier; you just go faster."

— Greg LeMond

"Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride."

— Eddy Merckx

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

— Lance Armstrong

"When my legs hurt, I say: 'Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!'"

— Jens Voigt

"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

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

— Lance Armstrong

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein

"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike."

— John F. Kennedy

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine."

— John Howard

"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

"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."

— K.K. Doty

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike."

— Queen (Freddie Mercury)

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

— H.G. Wells

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling."

— James E. Starrs

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym."

— Bill Nye

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."

— Albert Einstein

"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

"Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity."

— Lord Charles Beresford

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

— Mark Twain

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race."

— H.G. Wells

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."

— Charles M. Schulz

"Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds."

— Louis J. Helle Jr.

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

— Christopher Morley

"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

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."

— Iris Murdoch

"Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love."

— Johan Museeuw

"A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it."

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Eddy Merckx

"I don't ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days."

— Unknown

"Cyclers 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

"You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day."

— Daniel Behrman

"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

"I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again."

— Michelle Pfeiffer

"Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls."

— Bob Weir

"When you're turning the pedals, the world is at its best."

— Rebecca Wells

"After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go."

— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world."

— Grant Petersen

"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

"Mountain biking is the bicycle's equivalent of smashing a monster truck through a maze of carcasses."

— Anonymous

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most."

— Eddy Merckx

"Everything will be all right in the end... If it's not all right then it's not yet the end."

— Oscar Wilde

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a bike, and that's pretty close."

— Unknown

"Cycling is suffering, but it's also the best drug there is."

— Anonymous

"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it."

— Doug Bradbury

"Cyclists are insane. You're going up the mountain and the muscles are twitching and you wish that you were dead. Then you get to the top and you become insane."

— Tim Krabbe

"I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying no one has ever seen me and Batman in a room together."

— Anonymous Cyclist

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

— Lance Armstrong

"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems."

— Unknown

"Bicycling is life with the volume turned up."

— Unknown

"Ride lots."

— Eddy Merckx

"Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers — those people ride a bike."

— Wolfgang Sachs

"Suffering is a part of competition, and you have to embrace it and figure out how to deal with it."

— Chris Froome

"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."

— Emil Zatopek

"The winner makes the course suit him. The loser allows the course to make the race."

— Raymond Poulidor

"I race to see who has the most guts."

— Steve Prefontaine

"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

"In cycling, pain is the essence of performance."

— David Millar

"It's not about the bike. It's about the rider."

— Lance Armstrong

"Cycling is the only sport that can save the world."

— Peter Walker

"I want to ride so hard that my quads scream for mercy."

— Anonymous

"Hills are speed work in disguise."

— Frank Shorter

"If you brake, you don't win."

— Mario Cipollini

"Ride like the wind... or at least like a gentle breeze."

— Unknown

"Good riders have a coach. Great riders have a better coach."

— Anonymous

"Climb every mountain, ford every stream. But mostly just climb mountains."

— Anonymous Cyclist

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you."

— Fred DeVito

"Your body can stand almost anything. It's your mind that you have to convince."

— Unknown

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

— Billie Jean King

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

— Tommy Lasorda

"Don't dream of winning, train for it!"

— Mo Farah

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

— Henry Ford

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

— Tim Notke

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."

— Pelé

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

— Wayne Gretzky

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up."

— Unknown

"The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen."

— Unknown

"Sweat is fat crying."

— Unknown

"Cycling: cheaper than therapy."

— Unknown

"Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving."

— Albert Einstein

"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

— Carl Sagan

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

— Chinese Proverb

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

— Sir Edmund Hillary

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

— Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single pedal stroke."

— Unknown (adapted from Lao Tzu)

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

— Japanese Proverb

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

— Thomas Paine

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."

— Rikki Rogers

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

— Unknown

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

— Unknown

"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

"In the race against time, you're the only competitor."

— Unknown

"The peloton is hell on wheels."

— Anonymous

"Attacking is the only secret to cycling. Ride aggressively, make others respond."

— Bernard Hinault

"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

"I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what's important in life."

— Mark Obmascik

"The hill is your friend. If you can't learn to embrace the pain, you'll never reach your potential."

— Unknown

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

— Jack Ma

"Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash."

— David Millar

"Every pedal stroke is a small victory."

— Unknown

"In climbing mountains, as in all endurance sports, you either have to be physically superior or you have to have a greater mental tenacity."

— Unknown

"The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters."

— Conrad Anker

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence."

— Hermann Buhl

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."

— Unknown

"Excuses don't get results."

— Unknown

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

— Unknown

"A bad day on the bike beats a good day in the office."

— Unknown

"Cycling is the answer. Who cares what the question is."

— Unknown

"Two wheels move the soul."

— Unknown

"To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster."

— Eddy Merckx

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

— Eddy Merckx

"Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades."

— Eddy Merckx

"When it hurts, that's when you can make a difference."

— Eddy Merckx

"I'm only really alive when I'm on my bike."

— Eddy Merckx

"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

"The Tour is the ultimate test of the heart, mind, and legs."

— Greg LeMond

"I know it's possible to win the Tour without taking anything."

— Greg LeMond

"Life is short, and the Tour de France long."

— Bernard Hinault

"As long as I breathe, I attack."

— Bernard Hinault

"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

"It was eleven more than necessary."

— Jacques Anquetil

"Pain is still the friend that always tells me the truth."

— Chris Froome

"In our sport the tour is the holy grail."

— Chris Froome

"Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place."

— Lance Armstrong

"We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell."

— Lance Armstrong

"The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy."

— Lance Armstrong

"A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it."

— Lance Armstrong

"It's not about the bike."

— Lance Armstrong

"The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget."

— Mario Cipollini

"If you brake, you don't win."

— Mario Cipollini

"I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody. My big aim is more women on bicycles."

— Marianne Vos

"Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals."

— Fabian Cancellara

"You are one ride away from a good mood."

— Sarah Bentley

"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

"Cycling isn't a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices."

— Jean de Gribaldy

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."

— Albert Einstein

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

— Mark Twain

"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride."

— John F. Kennedy

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

— Susan B. Anthony

"It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance."

— Susan B. Anthony

"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

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling."

— James E. Starrs

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

— H.G. Wells

"Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity."

— Lord Charles Beresford

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man."

— Iris Murdoch

"Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."

— Iris Murdoch

"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

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

— Christopher Morley

"Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls."

— Bob Weir

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world."

— Grant Petersen

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym."

— Bill Nye

"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

"Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love."

— Johan Museeuw

"You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day."

— Daniel Behrman

"I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again."

— Michelle Pfeiffer

"When you're turning the pedals, the world is at its best."

— Rebecca Wells

"After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go."

— Arthur Conan Doyle

"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

"Mountain biking is the bicycle's equivalent of smashing a monster truck through a maze of carcasses."

— Anonymous

"Cyclists are insane. You're going up the mountain and the muscles are twitching and you wish that you were dead. Then you get to the top and you become insane."

— Tim Krabbe

"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it."

— Doug Bradbury

"Cycling is suffering, but it's also the best drug there is."

— Anonymous

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a bike, and that's pretty close."

— Unknown

"Everything will be all right in the end... If it's not all right then it's not yet the end."

— Oscar Wilde

"The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most."

— Eddy Merckx

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."

— Emil Zatopek

"The winner makes the course suit him. The loser allows the course to make the race."

— Raymond Poulidor

"I race to see who has the most guts."

— Steve Prefontaine

"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

"In cycling, pain is the essence of performance."

— David Millar

"Cycling is the only sport that can save the world."

— Peter Walker

"I want to ride so hard that my quads scream for mercy."

— Anonymous

"Hills are speed work in disguise."

— Frank Shorter

"Ride like the wind... or at least like a gentle breeze."

— Unknown

"Good riders have a coach. Great riders have a better coach."

— Anonymous

"Climb every mountain, ford every stream. But mostly just climb mountains."

— Anonymous Cyclist

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you."

— Fred DeVito

"Your body can stand almost anything. It's your mind that you have to convince."

— Unknown

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

— Billie Jean King

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

— Tommy Lasorda

"Don't dream of winning, train for it!"

— Mo Farah

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

— Henry Ford

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

— Tim Notke

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."

— Pelé

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

— Wayne Gretzky

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up."

— Unknown

"The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen."

— Unknown

"Sweat is fat crying."

— Unknown

"Cycling: cheaper than therapy."

— Unknown

"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

— Carl Sagan

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

— Chinese Proverb

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

— Sir Edmund Hillary

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

— Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single pedal stroke."

— Unknown

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

— Japanese Proverb

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

— Thomas Paine

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."

— Rikki Rogers

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

— Unknown

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."

— Unknown

"In the race against time, you're the only competitor."

— Unknown

"The peloton is hell on wheels."

— Anonymous

"I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what's important in life."

— Mark Obmascik

"The hill is your friend. If you can't learn to embrace the pain, you'll never reach your potential."

— Unknown

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

— Jack Ma

"Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash."

— David Millar

"Every pedal stroke is a small victory."

— Unknown

"In climbing mountains, as in all endurance sports, you either have to be physically superior or you have to have a greater mental tenacity."

— Unknown

"The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters."

— Conrad Anker

"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence."

— Hermann Buhl

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."

— Unknown

"Excuses don't get results."

— Unknown

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."

— Unknown

"A bad day on the bike beats a good day in the office."

— Unknown

"Cycling is the answer. Who cares what the question is."

— Unknown

"Two wheels move the soul."

— Unknown

"Suffering is a part of competition, and you have to embrace it and figure out how to deal with it."

— Chris Froome

"Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers — those people ride a bike."

— Wolfgang Sachs

"Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds."

— Louis J. Helle Jr.

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine."

— John Howard

"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

"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."

— K.K. Doty

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike."

— Queen (Freddie Mercury)

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."

— Charles M. Schulz

"Ride lots."

— Eddy Merckx

"The bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world's most complicated problems."

— Unknown

"Bicycling is life with the volume turned up."

— Unknown

"I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying no one has ever seen me and Batman in a room together."

— Anonymous Cyclist

"The bicycle is my teacher, the road is my classroom."

— Unknown

"Pedaling toward purpose."

— Unknown

"Find yourself between the saddle and the sky."

— Unknown

"The bicycle: humanity's perfect invention."

— Unknown

"Chasing sunsets on two wheels."

— Unknown

"The open road is calling."

— Unknown

"Ride hard, smile harder."

— Unknown

"Born to ride, forced to work."

— Unknown

"Eat. Sleep. Ride. Repeat."

— Unknown

"The bike never lies about your effort."

— Unknown

"Shift gears, shift perspectives."

— Unknown

"The ascent is optional. The effort is not."

— Unknown

"Ride today, fly tomorrow."

— Unknown

"Your only limit is you."

— Unknown

"Pedal power changes everything."

— Unknown

"The road rewards the committed."

— Unknown

"Suffering is temporary. Glory is forever."

— Unknown

"Ride like the wind, finish like a champion."

— Unknown

"Every rider has a story."

— Unknown

"The best therapy has two wheels."

— Unknown

"Cycling: the art of controlled falling."

— Unknown

"Dare to dream, dare to ride."

— Unknown

"Progress, not perfection."

— Unknown

"The climb reveals character."

— Unknown

"Breathe. Pedal. Believe."

— Unknown

"Miles bring smiles."

— Unknown

"The harder the ride, the sweeter the rest."

— Unknown

"Champions ride when others rest."

— Unknown

"Your bike, your rules."

— Unknown

"The mountains are calling and I must ride."

— Unknown

"Velocity is victory."

— Unknown

"Earn your rest days."

— Unknown

"Ride with passion or not at all."

— Unknown

"The peloton never sleeps."

— Unknown

"Watts win races."

— Unknown

"Aero is everything."

— Unknown

"Train insane or remain the same."

— Unknown

"No rain, no gain."

— Unknown

"The bike knows no shortcuts."

— Unknown

"Pedal through the pain."

— Unknown

"Every ride is a victory lap."

— Unknown

"The road is my canvas."

— Unknown

"Cycling is my superpower."

— Unknown

"Find your pace, trust your race."

— Unknown

"Legs of steel, will of iron."

— Unknown

"The chain of success starts here."

— Unknown

"Ride toward your dreams."

— Unknown

"The handlebars hold your future."

— Unknown

"Gear up, never give up."

— Unknown

"The saddle is my throne."

— Unknown

"Ride free or don't ride at all."

— Unknown

"Every turn brings opportunity."

— Unknown

"The road rises to meet you."

— Unknown

"Pedal power, limitless potential."

— Unknown

"Your journey, your triumph."

— Unknown

"The bike amplifies your soul."

— Unknown

"Ride smart, finish strong."

— Unknown

"The road tests, you conquer."

— Unknown

"Every mile makes you wiser."

— Unknown

"The summit awaits the patient."

— Unknown

"Cycling: where pain meets purpose."

— Unknown

"Trust the process, love the ride."

— Unknown

"The road is your story."

— Unknown

"Ride boldly into tomorrow."

— Unknown

"Strength comes from the saddle."

— Unknown

"The bike doesn't judge."

— Unknown

"Every effort compounds."

— Unknown

"The road ahead is yours."

— Unknown

"Pedaling creates possibilities."

— Unknown

"Your legs, your legend."

— Unknown

"The bike makes poets of us all."

— Unknown

"Ride with heart, race with head."

— Unknown

"The cadence of champions."

— Unknown

"Every gradient is a gift."

— Unknown

"The road rewards consistency."

— Unknown

"Cycling is controlled chaos."

— Unknown

"Find flow on two wheels."

— Unknown

"The bike builds character."

— Unknown

"Every revolution brings evolution."

— Unknown

"Ride toward the horizon."

— Unknown