Greg LeMond Quotes
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.
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.
The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.
When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.
It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.