15 Inspiring Quotes To Get You Cycling

Cycling is a sport which inspires – and the ups and downs of cycling have produced a few quotes over the years which sum up the beauty and joy, freedom and pain and suffering, that are part of life on two wheels. Need some inspiration to get out on the bike? Words of wisdom on how to push yourself to the next level? Or just want to know some thoughts of the greatest riders in the history of cycling? Here you go!

“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.”

– Eddy Merckx

“When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!”

– Jens Voigt

“It never gets easier, you just get faster.”

– Greg LeMond

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.”

– John F Kennedy

“Cyclists see considerably more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.”

– Dr K.K. Doty

“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.”

– Scott Stoll

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.”

– Desmond Tutu

“Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”

– Jean de Gribaldy

“It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic gold 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.”

– Scott Martin

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

– Doug Bradbury

“To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

– Mark Cavendish

“I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days.”

– Unknown

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

– Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.”

– Heinz Stucke

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City biker and social media nerd. Astrid joined the Bikemap Team in August 2017 and is responsible for Marketing and all community related tasks. When she's not at the Bikemap office, she's probably out riding her way around pretty streets of Vienna.

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Astrid Koger: City biker and social media nerd. Astrid joined the Bikemap Team in August 2017 and is responsible for Marketing and all community related tasks. When she's not at the Bikemap office, she's probably out riding her way around pretty streets of Vienna.