Cycling Quotes

[Tailwinds]

"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 country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."

-- Ernest Hemingway

Thought this was well-spoken.


Most of us have seen this better-known quote:

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

-- H.G. Wells


Also:

"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


Did you know there are no tailwinds (uh oh):

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

-- Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles


Any other good ones you've come across?

[EPOJoe]

"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, Minneapolis Tribune, 1895

[Kevin]

See my signature below.

Kevin

[SoCalSteve]

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

Albert Einstein

[Smiley]

May a Tailwind show you the way home.

adapted from sailing lingo but works well for cycling too !

[FierteTi52]

Not quite a cycling quote, but I saw this sticker on a beat up fixie locked to a parking meter. No offense to the women out there.

" I wish my girlfriend was as dirty as my bike"

Jeff

[george]

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=4157

[Headwinds]

"It doesn't get any easier, you just get stronger..."
Greg LeMond

And the one on my signature, from PB Wrench!

[Elefantino]

:)

[mwos]

"I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."

- Susan B. Anthony 1896

[Bill Bove]

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" Don't know who said it but a chic I used (past tense)to date had it on a t-shirt.

[victoryfactory]

"Here he comes, and he's breathing down the seat of their pants!"

- an over excited Paul Sherwin doing his best Phill Liggett imitation
during the Giro (I think it ws) last year.

VF

[LegendRider]

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" Don't know who said it but a chic I used (past tense)to date had it on a t-shirt.

Gloria Steinem I believe.

[Kevan]

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs

[victoryfactory]

Check out this site for bicycle quotes:
Bicycle Quotes (http://www.quotegarden.com/bicycling.html)

My favorite:
"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it... If you live." -Mark Twain

VF

[toaster]

I wonder if anyone famous ever just said:

"The bicycle is man's greatest invention."

If not, I just did.

[Kevan]

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan


To it I say, "Puh...lease!"

[flydhest]

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

Albert Einstein


Einstein needed to learn how to track stand.