Motorcycle Quotes - Page 2

• It was the same with Schumacher: the need for the adrenaline rush, to push himself to the limit was always there. So without a Formula One car to race with he went on to do motorcycle racing and other stupid things, and obviously that wasn't enough to keep him happy, so he had a problem to sort out and returning to racing was his answer to the problem.

  Niki Lauda

  Stupid, Race, Car

  Source: www.grandprix.com

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Tombstone, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• A motorcycle is an independent thing.

  Ryan Hurst

  Independent

  "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks 'Sons of Anarchy' and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Bikers

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• Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

  Evel Knievel

  Hands, Feet, Riding

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Want, Pickles, Dies

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• When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

  Neil Peart

  Riding, Glad To Be Alive, Alive

  Neil Peart (2011). “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle”, p.22, ECW Press

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• It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Ideas, Riding

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". Interview with Lars-Olav Beier and Andreas Borcholte, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Feet, Car, Brain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I am out of practice at living.
  You are as brave as a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Practice, Brave

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.151, Penguin

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Getting Older

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

  Diego Sanchez

  Horse, Iron, Riding

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.

  Dave Chappelle

  America, Fantasy, Coast

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• [Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Bob, Dylan

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!

  Mark Driscoll

  Tired, Drunk, Smoking

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• Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

  James McAvoy

  Greatness, Feelings, Tests

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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