Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

Lance Armstrong

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

As long as I breathe, I attack.

Bernard Hinault

It doesn't get any easier, you just get faster.

Greg Lemond

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Frances E. Willard

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.

Grant Peterson

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

H.G. Wells

The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew - and live through it.

Doug Bradbury

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Donald Antrim

To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain....at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport. Without pain, there's no adversity. Without adversity, no challenge. Without challenge, no improvement. No improvement, no sense of accomplishment and no deep-down joy. Might as well be playing Tiddly-Winks.

Scott Martin

Ride lots.

Eddy Merckx