75+ Best Cycling Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Cycling is the sport of riding a bicycle. Profoundly inspirational cycling quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Cycling Quotes

When my legs hurt, I sayShut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! Jens Voigt

Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love. Johan Museeuw

If you go with a break, you can either win or not win. If you don’t go for it, you definitely won’t win. Jens Voigt

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 never gets easier, you just get faster. Greg LeMond

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

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

There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle! Mehmet Murat İldan

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

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

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

In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed. Jacques Torres

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

Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. Zapata Espinoza

It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels. Heinz Stucke

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles. Tom Kunich

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. John Howard

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling. Jon Snow

Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love. Johan Museeuw

The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world. Susan B. Anthony

As long as I breathe, I attack. Bernard Hinault

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. William Saroyan

My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike. It’s sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, I wish I had done more. Graeme Obree

Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! Mehmet Murat İldan

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment a job. Bernard Hinault

I used to work in a bank when I was younger and 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

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day riding a bike to the library. Peter Golkin

When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it there. Chris McCormack

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

When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride. Ned Overend

Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity. Lord Charles Beresford

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

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

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

Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever. Hugh Pearma

Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. Mark Twain

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

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schultz

Cycling isn’t a game, it is 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

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race. H.G. Wells

My fear isn’t crashing this bike at 85 miles per hour and losing my skin. It is sitting in my chair at 90 and thinking, I wish I’d done more. Graeme Obree

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. James E. Starrs

When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it in there. Chris McCormack

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. William Saroyan

You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding. Laura Trott

Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. Scott Stoll

Think of bicycles as ridable art that can just about save the world. Grant Petersen

And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike. Keith Mills

A bicycle is the finest mode of transport known to man. Adam Hart Davis

When it’s hurting you, that’s when you can make a difference. Eddy Merckx

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. Bill Nye

Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike. Felicity Luckey

When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax. US President George W. Bush

Your cycling goals should be out of reach but never out of sight. Felicity Luckey

Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity. Lord Charles Beresford

Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. Mark Twain

Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle! Mehmet Murat ildan

Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers those people ride a bike. Wolfgang Sachs

Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large. Udo E. Simonis

Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. Hallman

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking. David Byrne

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. Hunter S. Thompson

Cycling is good for people in all ways their health, their well being, and it does no damage to the environment.Jeremy Corbyn

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one. I’d like to ride my bike all day long but I’ve got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way. Bill Walton

Cyclers see considerable 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

I worry about kids today not having time to build a treehouse or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster. John Lasseter

Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave. James E Starts

If your day job keeps you from riding as much as you’d like, you aren’t as fast as you think you are. Knolly Bikes

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. H.G. Wells

Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride. Eddy Merckx

A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. Simon Peat

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. Carl Sagan