Cycling Quotes

• I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

  Freddie Mercury

  Riding, Want, Bicycle

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

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Race, Car

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dark, Riding Your Bike

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Pain, Winning, Suffering

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• One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

  Michael Palin

  Important, Riding A Bicycle, Bike Riding

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• 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

  Stupid, Men, Fishing

  "11 Pieces Of Wisdom From Desmond Tutu To Inspire Change Makers In 2017" by Brian Rusch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2016.

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• Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Sports, Lifestyle

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Healing, Heart

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Om Books International

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• I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

  David Attenborough

  Bicycle, Ifs, I Can

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• The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Race, Sun

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Bikers, Cyclists

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• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Simple, Origin Of Life

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• 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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Riding Your Bike

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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

  Eddy Merckx

  Long, Riding, Littles

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Riding Your Bike, Bikers

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• Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

  David Byrne

  Lonely, Way, Good Way

  "Cycle killer: David Byrne on the joys of cycling" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

  Miguel Indurain

  Pain, Race, Suffering

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• 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

  Car, Good Mood, Knows

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• I used to work in a bank when I was younger and 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

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Long

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• I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...

  Freddie Mercury

  Believe, Want, Riding A Bicycle

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• I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!

  Henri Desgrange

  People, Giving, Suffering

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• I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

  Eddy Merckx

  School

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• Ive had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, Ive raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just dont know if I love it enough any more.

  Clara Hughes

  Way, Enough, Prove

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