Bike Quotes - Page 15

• It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Basketball, Cheerleading, Games

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• Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

  Michael Symon

  Food, Skins, Riding

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  Charles Martinet

  Falling In Love, Princess, Voice

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• Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion

  Nicki Minaj

  Vintage, Materialistic, Mansions

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

  Wolfgang Sachs

  Moving, Healing, People

  Wolfgang Sachs (1992). “For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back Into the History of Our Desires”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

  Barack Obama

  People, Riding, Faces

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• A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

  John Tomac

  Cycling, Race, Two

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• As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

  Jonathan Lethem

  Growing Up, Children, White

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• Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys to southeastern Canada. He bears witness not only to wilderness that still sustains bears, panthers, and bobcats but also to the possibilities for connecting further wildways in the eastern United States. His inspiring journey reminds us all that we must rediscover the wildness we still have before we lose it forever.

  Michael Brune

  Recovery, Journey, Keys

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• In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

  Emile Hirsch

  Chinese

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• My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree That's where we would conduct our very important business, I'm sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you're seven or eight.

  Eric Ladin

  Girl, Eight, Tree

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Travel, Pay The Price, Car

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying maybe not a bike.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Saying Maybe, My Friends

  "Olympics to Face Stiff Ratings Competition; 'Project Runway' Competitors Face Off at Fashion Week; Harrison Ford Dishes on New Film, Reprising Indy". "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Sibila Vargas, edition.cnn.com. February 10, 2006.

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• Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

  Geoff Dyer

  Giving Up, Trying, Persevere

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Beyonce: The Billboard Q&A". Interview with Gail Mitchell, www.billboard.com. October 2, 2009.

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• Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been

  Jimmie Johnson

  Sports, Passion, Kids

  "Johnson - NASCAR teleconference". Teleconference, www.motorsport.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom

  Vladimir Putin

  Giving, Challenges, Feelings

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• It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Years, Want, Today

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• Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

  Julia Phillips

  Life, Running, Healthy

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• Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

  Jens Voigt

  Moving, Average, Facts

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• Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

  James Van Praagh

  Trust, Nature, Learning

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Dec 27, 2014

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• Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

  Amy Grant

  Simple, Hectic Schedule, Long

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• For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants

  Jacques Anquetil

  Race, Years, Effort

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