57 Inspirational Cycling Quotes to Fuel Your Ride

"You are one ride away from a good mood"

- Sarah Bentley

"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

"Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But Ride."

- Eddy Merckx

"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

"Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away."

- Doug Donaldson

"The bicycle saves my life every day. If you've ever experienced a moment of awe or freedom on a bicycle; if you've ever taken flight from sadness to the rhythm of two spinning wheels, or felt the resurgence of hope pedalling to the top of a hill with the dew of effort on your forehead; if you've ever wondered, swooping down bird-like down a long hill, if the world was standing still; if you have ever, just once, sat on a bicycle with a singing heart and felt like an ordinary human touching the gods, then we share something fundamental. We know it's all about the bike."

- Robert Penn

"Your bike is a discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are when you're on the saddle; you're taken away."

- Doug Donaldson

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

- Greg LeMond

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

- Jens Voigt

"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

"Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired."

- Greg Henderson

"Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!"

- Jack London

"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike."

- John F. Kennedy

"As long as I breathe, I attack"

- Bernard Hinault

"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

"You made the preparation. Is it worth it that you go through that pain and then you win at the top, and then it's done and over? The pain will be away after a few minutes. Then you can be happy."

- Marianne Vos

"Sometimes when we train, we simply have to go out and meet the man with the hammer"

- Laurent Fignon

"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

"Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades."

- Eddy Merckx

"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

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

- Hallman

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling."

- James E. Starrs

"A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness."

- James E. Starrs

"You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life."

- Susan Vreeland

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

- Tom Kunich

"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 Morton

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

- Dough Bradbury

"Cyclists 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

"Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love."

- Johan Museeuw

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

- Scott Stoll

"Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy"

- Kristin Armstrong

"Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"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

"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

"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle."

- Michael Palin

"You can't get good by staying home. If you want to get fast, you have to go where the fast guys are."

- Steve Larsen

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

- Albert Einstein

"Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it if you live."

- Mark Twain

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle, most of us have gears we have not used."

- Charles M. Schulz

"I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do."

- Miguel Indurain

"Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like "Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second."

- Neil Pasricha

"Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless."

- Zapata Espinoza

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine."

- Jenny Hart

"The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind."

- William Saroyan

"If I can bicycle, I bicycle."

- David Attenborough

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

- Grant Petersen

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

- Bill Nye

"When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments."

- Elizabeth Esty

"It's the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over."

- Colman Mc Cartby

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

- Chip Brown

"A bicycle is the finest mode of transport known to man."

- Adam Hart-Davis

"Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity"

- Lord Charles Beresford

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia."

- H.G. Wells

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

- Susan B. Anthony

"Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls."

- Bob Weir