 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Quotes
from 2010 - Quotes
prior to 2010 "Pippo
knew the term 'metrosexual,' but for clarity: his sexual preference is
only for women." - Andy Schleck
VeloNation
"I am
passionate and competitive. I am not going to let Pat McQuaid of the
UCI determine who I am as a person." - Michael Ball
VeloNation
"Worried would be too strong of a word. I'm aware of (my performance), but not too stressed." - Lance Armstrong
BikingBis
"Let me tell you something
about Floyd [Landis]. I like the guy, but his idea of business dealings
were not a lot to be desired. It didn't work out in the end because I
couldn't take his word, so it ended. I'm fine with that. It didn't end
in a bad way, but didn't end in a good way." - Michael Ball
VeloNation
"The new rules mean that there
is no communication in category two races. I don’t mind. It just makes
it more important to have a good strategy beforehand, a team that will
work together and can talk together during the race." - Emma Johansson PEZ
"I don't think there is any
other sport that would have kept going, but we kept trucking along even
though there were rubbish bins blowing in the bunch and trees knocked
over. It was pretty mad." - Stuart O'Grady CyclingWeekly
"In his [Ricco's] place I'd
have kept quiet… instead he said some crazy things that made me really
angry. Then he went to Sicily to train." - Vania Rossi CyclingNews
“The day the A sample came back, the damage had been done – everything had changed.” - Tom Zirbel VeloNews
"This is my home town race and
I live a kilometre from the finish. It doesn't get much better, well,
winning gets better, but to go well here is special for me." - Tyler
Farrar CyclingNews
"...in
2008 when negotiations between the UCI, ASO and the teams virtually
collapsed and the teams signed an agreement with the ASO that brought
into question the team's continued participation in the biological
passport, I thought that it might be the end." - Anne Gripper CyclingNews
“Afterwards we felt extremely
let down. There were huge promises, but they were never
fulfilled.” - Rudy Pevenage (DS, Rock Racing) CyclingNews
“Congrats to Contador. He
showed that, as most people would agree, he is the best bike rider in
the world right now. Hats off to him.” - Lance Armstrong
VeloNation
"Nothing.
Nobody is talking. I
called Michael Ball, the team owner, but doesn't answer his cell phone.
In the end, it seems like it won't happen, but no one will confirm that
news or tell us what is going to happen with the squad." - Oscar
Sevilla
VeloNation
"It
sounds almost as if I need to fight for victory every time I race, and
I'm certainly not in a position to do that." - Michael
Rasmussen VeloNation
"Next
year we will make a decision on which teams no longer belong in the
ProTour. This is no idle threat." - Pat McQuaid VeloNation "Vania's
positive threw dirt in my face and left me back in a hole. I
understand that it is a crucial moment for her, but it's not right that
I pay again." - Riccardo Riccò VeloNation "I
agree with Mark Cavendish [who said called Riccò a 'parasite'] and
Marco Pinotti, it makes me want to vomit that he [Riccò] is coming
back." - Matteo Algeri RoadBikeAction
"In
Qatar anything can happen. It's still all open for sure. We're going to
fight until the very last stage." - Heinrich Haussler CyclingNews “It’s
sad that my faith in him [Wiggins] during the first year didn’t mean
enough to him for him to stick it out.” - Jonathan Vaughters VeloNation
"There was a lot of bullshit post announcement from their point of
view." - Bradley Wiggins CyclingNews "I was very impressed by the
vineyards in Santa Rosa area and the beautiful hills of Southern
California. It’s quite different from Europe. Everything is so big and
there are such wide open spaces." - Alessandro Ballan USCyclingReport "Cycling
isn’t for women, it hurts too much." - Riccardo Ricco PEZ "It’s
like someone just punching you in your legs until you have a Charlie
horse for a couple of weeks or so. It’s happening right now. Right now
it’s my quads." - Katie Compton VeloNews "...when
you're braking too much you're more dangerous than if you just let it
fly." - Christian Vande Velde CyclingNews "Ivan [Basso] might be a different personality. Maybe he doesn't have
the same need to speak up about others. It's bullshit; just because you
shout out about other people doesn't make you less wrong than another
guy. It doesn't make sense." - Bjarne Riis CyclingNews "All
that drinking is starting to pay off. I beat the course record set by
Zman [David Zabriskie] two years ago and I was on somebody else's road
bike with clinchers and no aero clothes. Take that ^@*#&rs." -
Floyd Landis BrowneEye “Hulk
Hogan on a bike.” - Michael Rogers [describing Andre Greipel] VeloNews "I
think Levi’s a real dark
horse that no one really talks much about, and maybe he likes it that
way – but I think he’s pretty incredible." - Jason McCartney VeloNews "No one stands out too much.
There are many rivals, though man-to-man the person who put me in the
most difficulty in the mountains at the Tour was Andy Schleck." -
Alberto Contador VeloNation "I
hope Lance can win, but it is not easy to win the Tour with so many
other good riders around. - Eddy Merckx DNAIndia "Yeah,
it happened that quickly. I was like, 'oh, oh, I won again'." - Evelyn
Stevens CyclingNews "Lance
has won seven Tours, I've only lost five." Cadel Evans TheAge "Character
is what you have left when you've lost everything you can
lose." - Evan Esar QuotationsPage “I
will be at 100 percent, riding for Alberto at the Tour de France. As
for me, I will do the best I can at the Giro de Italia.” -
Alexander Vinokourov VeloNews "Believe
it or not, I believe that most riders don't want to dope - I think that
amnesty would work, where everyone admitted their indiscretions, but
with no come backs." - Joe Papp PEZ "It’s insulting to the passion that I have and the
others have for cycling … and for someone else [Riccardo Ricco] to not give a
shit about that, it’s incredibly demoralizing to have to compete
against that.” Mark Cavendish VeloNews "I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I
keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since
I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd.
Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And
get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone
number spells in words." - Ellen DeGeneres Quotationspage "My
time and training and focus and emphasis on racing will be a little
more than it was last year. I'm really doubling down on the racing side
of things to see if we can get an eighth Tour (title)." - Lance
Armstrong ESPN “I
would like to apologize deeply, profoundly from the bottom of my
heart.” - Christopher Thomas Thompson VeloNews "The
risk of not lubing frequently enough is that you wear out the
drivetrain parts much more quickly. A good rule of thumb is, if it
sounds like a flock of birds chasing you down the street, it’s too
late." - Eric Schofield NYT "It
is unthinkable that an 18-year-old would be able to find a substance
like Human chorionic gonadotrophin without the help of persons close to
him. The boy is only a puppet in the hands of people that are more
experienced in cycling." - Ivano Fanini CyclingNews
"I
might be trying to slow down the pace to help my man, but I'm not
endangering anyone's life or trying to put anyone into the barriers."
- Baden Cooke smh.com.au "You
can't ask for a better proven combination than Johan and Lance, they've
done what no others have ever done. So for me and some of the younger
riders it's like: 'We're here with Johan Bruyneel, if we can't develop
and be better cyclists under him, then we're never going to do it'." -
Sam Bewley NZHearld "The
biggest problem was situated in Pontarlier when George Hincapie
just missed out on the yellow jersey. That was stressful. George
thought that we had ridden against him, which we did not. George didn't
want to speak to
any of us. For weeks.” - Lance Armstrong CyclingNews
Quotes prior to 2010 |
