Greg LeMond Quotes (19 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.

I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

I remember training with my Australian friend Phil Anderson prior to the world championships and. I don't know, I was just floating. I was flying. That's why I got so darn nervous.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

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.

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.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

It training doesn't get easier you just get faster.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

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.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.