Top 150 Cycling Quotes

I never really had a job, because I’ve been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one – but I never took it up because I couldn’t fit the job in with school and cycling.

I’m more optimistic about cycling right now than I’ve ever been.

Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don’t feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: ‘What an easy way to earn a living.’

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

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn’t something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn’t a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn’t refuse.

Miracles can sometimes happen in cycling.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Carrick has a big cycling culture and I would compare it to the Isle of Man in the UK.

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don’t think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

I’ve been involved in cycling all my life and at a high level for 20 years. It consumes your every waking minute whether you are aware of it or not: your last training session, your next session, what you are eating next. It is a passion.

I’m a bit rubbish at everything apart from cycling.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

My aim is sustainable fat loss and so I’ve opted for carb cycling.

I’d love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.

It was cycling that got me off drugs. I’d get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until very late at night, day after day, until it was out of the system.

I will never run out of cycling shorts, ballet slippers, denim shorts, socks and pyjamas.

I think when I first started cycling, it wasn’t that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn’t want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

My buddy lost about 100 pounds cycling. He took me on a 31-mile loop. I was hooked.

I love cycling.

I remember cycling down in my hometown Kanpur twice in two days for eight kilometres to see ‘Ardh Satya.’ I loved its rawness at a time when everyone was doing potboilers.

When you’re eating salad and quinoa while training, all you want is a burger. In the cycling season, when I’m doing 30-odd hours of exercise a week, I’m dreaming of burgers and curries that I’ll have at the end of the season.

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it’s great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

I love cycling, I do it all the time.

I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling is.

My mom knew Salman sir, as they grew up together in Bandra. He would often tell my mother Genievev Advani how one day he would be a star. They have been friends for the longest time and would go cycling together.

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends – and cycling.

I won’t be cycling to work any time soon. It’s too dark when I leave home at 4am, there’s too many speeding drivers and helmet hair wouldn’t look good on air. But I still want to do it.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

I came to the conclusion that I’m not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That’s just weak-kneed nonsense from people who believe the world can be cured with paperwork.

Bengaluru’s traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I’ve competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don’t find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

I’ve been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven – I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early ’90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I’d get a boob job.

I’d love to see Will Ferrell play me in a spoof track cycling movie.

I’m happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I’m happy; I’m glad about that. But I’m also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

I’m 100 per cent motivated. I haven’t done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.

We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.

Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I’d be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.

I find it difficult, the method of working in the cycling union, the lack of professionalism.

I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

Caution is the key to safe cycling. I’m aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I’m in control, liberated and free, when I’m on my bike.

I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.

In cycling, you just race. When you get to the finish, you see the result.

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

I am not a robot; I am a member of a family – my commitment to them comes over and above my commitment to cycling.

Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.

Cycling is low-impact, which is why people cycle into their 70s or 80s, but track cycling means hard gym work and crashes.

The UCI have to make the decision to put in rules into women’s cycling that they have in men’s cycling: you know, like a minimum budget to run a women’s team and that sort of thing so that it becomes more professional.

They do say now in cycling that there’s no such thing as bad weather – it’s bad clothing.

The bottom line is that most cycling kit exists for a reason. The padded shorts, for example, might look silly, but if you are riding for any length of time on a small, thin saddle you are going to feel it.

Don’t get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.

I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

I’m very keen on outdoor things, lots of running and cycling.

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

I’m not getting bored with cycling or winning – I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.

It’s insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life.

I began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.