These 50 Cycling Quotes Will Inspire You to Ride Whether You're a Mountain Biker or Prefer Your Peloton
Riding a bicycle is a fond childhood pastime for many of us. If you’ve kept up with cycling over the years, you likely do it to escape the worries of daily life, stay in shape or both.
During the pandemic, many people jumped on the cycling bandwagon as a fun, social-distancing activity. According to a survey conducted in May 2020, 85% of Americans perceived cycling as safer compared to public transportation. And don't even get us started on the Peloton boom (for anyone who's wondering, even President Joe Biden has one).
Whether you’re a cycling newbie or an experienced rider, cycling offers many different mental and physical health benefits. If you’re looking for cycling quotes to give you an extra boost, these bicycle quotes will motivate you to start riding today. Just don't forget your helmet!
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Cycling Quotes
1. “Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schultz
2. “It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” — Heinz Stücke
3. “The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” — William Saroyan
4. “You are one ride away from a good mood.” — Sarah Bentley
5. “Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
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6. “When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes, your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.” — George W. Bush
7. "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
8. “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” — John F. Kennedy
9. “Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” — Eddy Merckx
10. “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.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. “A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.” — Scott Stoll
12. “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
13. “Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists … to a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your life.” — Tommy Godwin
14. “I’ll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.” — Susan B. Anthony
15. “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. Thus, you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” — Ernest Hemingway
16. “Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” — Lord Charles Beresford
17. “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
18. “If you brake, you don’t win.” — Mario Cipollini
19. “Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.” — Kristin Armstrong
20. “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 Martin
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21. “The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen.” — Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
22. “When my legs hurt, I say: ‘Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!'” — Jens Voigt
23. “Bike riding is a beautiful thing. Peaceful and serene, flowing and artistic, freeing and blissful, pedaling a bike over hill and dale is ethereal.” — Ted King
24. “Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.” — Gino Bartali
25. “I think at the end of the day, I love the sport. I love riding my bike. I love tracking the progress and trying to be better at it. I think it makes me a better person and helps me grow in a lot of ways.” — Kate Courtney
26. “I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.” — Stephen Roche
27. “Your bike is discovery. Your bike is freedom. It doesn’t matter where you are, where you’re on the saddle, you’re taken away.” — Doug Donaldson
28. “Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” — Mark Twain
29. “Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.” — Helen Keller
30. “If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.” — Lance Armstrong
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31. “Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large.” — Udo Simonis
32. “Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!” — Jack London
33. “My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.” — Peter Golkin
34. “She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.” — Frances E. Willard
35. “For those who race, there’s no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What’s around the next corner? Who cares? You’re flyin’!” — Cadel Evans
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36. “Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” — Grant Petersen
37. "Cycling does it all—you have the complete satisfaction of arriving because your mind has chosen the path and steered you over it; your eyes have seen it; your muscles have felt it; your breathing, circulatory and digestive systems have all done their natural functions better than ever, and every part of your being knows you have traveled and arrived.” — John Foreste
38. “There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
39. “After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace.” — Paul de Vivie
40. “Commuting by bicycle is an absolutely essential part of my day. It’s mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.” — James L. Jones
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41. “Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It’s good for the waistline and it’s good for the wallet.” — Phil Keoghan
42. “Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.” — Jerry Dunn
43. “Pain is still the friend that always tells me the truth.” — Chris Froome
44. "Cyclists see considerably 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
45. "Good morale in cycling comes from good legs.” — Sean Yates
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46. "You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” — Keith Mills
47. "Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” — Hugh Pearman
48. "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.” — Iris Murdoch
49. "When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” — Elizabeth West
50. "As a kid I had a dream — I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.” — John Lennon
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