Have any great cycling quotes?

So my "team" put together a cookbook as a fundraiser for our Livestrong Challenge. I'm finishing up all the loose ends and getting it ready to go into production.

As recipes won't continue on to a second page, some pages will have empty space at the bottom of them. The company has quotes or drawings you can put there, but we're opting to put our own quotes. I have a mix of food quotes and I want to put in some cycling ones too.

I know some of you have quotes in your signature lines, but I'm hoping that you'll help me speed the process by replying here with your great cycling quotes.

Thanks in advance! And of course, feel free to order a book should you be so interested. :)

Hmmmm who is your audience?

I'm thinking that there are different kinds of quotes you could use, depending on who you are thinking of selling the book to.

There are lots of great quotes about cycling and society/cycling and women

Phil and Paul -isms could be fun if it is racers/racing fans you are going for that crowd

And then there is Jens... "Shut up legs!".

That's super :p

I'm liking this one-

"Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike"
Fausto Coppi
When a reporter asked him what it takes to become such a great champion.

and here's a non-racing one

I thought of that while riding my bike.
Albert Einstein - On the Theory of Relativity.

these are both from http://www.allgreatquotes.com/cycling_quotes.shtml

One more - because this one made me laugh out loud.....

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
Eddy Merckx
After winning his first bike race.

from the same web page Eden links, Frances Willard:

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Frances E. Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle.

These are just little 'filler' items in the book so I think a mix of things is fine. My sister has a bunch of food and eating quotes for it, but I thought a few cycling ones belong there too since we are raising money by riding our bikes, and you can see the cover art is someone in our jersey cycling. We also put in a few of our mother's quotes, which will likely only make our family laugh, but that's OK too. It's the recipes that really matter.

Thanks for the input and the link. That's great help!!

My favorite is

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy


I also believe someone here at TE uses or used to use this quote in their signature.

I like the Jens quote- gonna say that to my legs now! ;)


I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. -Queen

"What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint." -Lance Armstrong


"It never gets easier, you just go faster."
Greg LeMond


"There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that."
Eddy Merckx

"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


"Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws into your muscles."
Scott Martin


“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips


“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.”
Mark Twain


“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
H. G. Wells

My favorite has always been

"Ride it like you stole it."

attributed to some coach instructing a young Lance Armstrong in his early local racing career

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Originally Posted by Bike Writer

My favorite is

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy


I also believe someone here at TE uses or used to use this quote in their signature.

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My sister has that on her email signature. :)

Thank you all so much. So many good ones. I think I have a nice mix now of cycling, food/drink, hope/courage, and my mother's quotes. :D

“Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles."

and

"A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourist can in a hundred miles."

–Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym."
- Bill Nye

"Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.”
- Chip Brown

"Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing."
-Jacquie Phelan

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Originally Posted by pll

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym."
- Bill Nye

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That has been one of my favorite quotes since I first saw it.

I like this one, too:
Bicycling is the number one reason for the increase in the ranks of reckless girls who become outcast women.
~ unknown 1895

"I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my bicycle.
I don't wanna die, just wanta ride on my bike"

Arlo Guthrie - the motorcycle song adapted for bikers.:0

" I havea great idea! Let's all go for a bike ride." Elizabeth from New England on days 3-57 of a recent southern tier cross country ride. ;)