Don’t rest on your laurels

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Coppi, Fausto Coppi, improvement, reaching the top

“You become a superstar if, having won, you are never completely satisfied…”

Fausto Coppi, quoted by William Fotheringham in ‘Fallen Angel, The Passion of Fausto Coppi’

Are you a quitter, or are you like Johnny?

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Courage, Cycling crash, Johnny Hoogerland, Never Quit, Tour de France

Don’t miss out (again)!

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It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong, second chances

“If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you’ve got to go all the way.”

Lance Armstrong in ‘It’s Not About the Bike’

Hope

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bicycle, famous cycling quotes, H G Wells, Hope, human race

“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.”

H. G. Wells (British author)

Sometimes you need to take a different route

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Avoid crash, bicycle, different route, downhill, Lance Armstrong, offroad, Tour de France

Take action

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Big legs, Motivation, Robert Millar, Television, Training

“…you don’t get big legs from watching television”

Robert Millar (in an interview with William Fotheringham, retold by Richard Moore) in ‘In Search of Robert Millar’

Today’s record is tomorrow’s motivation

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Christophe Le Mevel, Climb, Garmin, Motivation, Record

Nothing worthwhile comes easy

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Biggest gear, Headwind, Nothing worthwhile comes easy, Robert Millar, Training

“It doesn’t matter if it is a headwind, I just keep it in the biggest gear and if I’m lucky my knees don’t break. After this type of training then racing should be easier”

Robert Millar – quoted by Richard Moore in ‘In Search of Robert Millar’

Getting to the top

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It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong, top of the hill

“I’ve read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don’t fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.”

Lance Armstrong – ‘It’s Not About the Bike’

Live fast, die old

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bicycle, It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong, Live fast

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour”

Lance Armstrong – opening line in ‘It’s Not About the Bike’