Famous quotes by Greg Lemond:
"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."
"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."
"You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing."
"(Training) doesn't get easier; you just get faster"
"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."
"There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself."
"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 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."
"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 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."
"Even good people are obliged to deceive."
"More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made."
"Testing, we will never do enough of it."
"It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar."
"There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing."
"I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been."
