Best Quotes from the Tour de France

donrhummy

There's some good ones.

http://www.thefredcast.com/?p=1523

My favorites:

I’ll miss Mark in the bedroom. That doesn’t sound right, does it? — Mark Cavendish on Mark Renshaw

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos. — Jens Voigt

Contador just gained a great chance to win, but he lost the chance to win greatly. — Cervélo team owner Gerard Vroomen

If you draw your sword and drop it, you die. —Ryder Hjesdal

iainf72

I always liked

Thank christ that's over. iainf72

iainf72

But the Ryder one is genius. In a geeky kind of way

mididoctors

If I had attacked one more time I would have dropped myself.

Thick Tester

This will never be topped

Jens Voight wrote:

Just one year after my horrible crash, and there I was tumbling on another mountain descent. And let me tell you, about the only place that feels good right now is my right ankle. The rest of me is all road rash. Plus I’ve got five stitches in my left elbow and then there are some ribs that are not in the right place! I may have to get x-rays, but I hate x-rays (the radiation), and plus, if I’ve got a fractured rib, what can anyone do about it?

The worst thing of all was that I almost got forced out of the Tour for a second year in a row. The problem was that the first team car was behind Andy Schleck, and the second had decided to go up ahead to hand out water bottles at the foot of the next climb. As a result I had no bike, because mine was shattered.

So then the broom wagon pulled up and was like, “Do you want to just get in?” And I said, “Oh no, I don’t need YOU!” But there I am with blood spurting out my left elbow and no bike

frenchfighter

Thanks - some good ones there.

Le Commentateur

iainf72 wrote:

But the Ryder one is genius. In a geeky kind of way

Viking ancestery?

No_Ta_Doctor

"I'm fucked, mate" takes some beating imo. Though Cav on Renshaw in the bedroom still tops it.

RichN95.

By far the best for me:

Matt Lloyd on Euskaltel wrote:

"They just fall off. There's no reason why. You'll just be riding along and there they'll be like a bleeding carrot in the middle of the road lying in pain."

stokepa31

RichN95 wrote:

By far the best for me:

Matt Lloyd on Euskaltel wrote:

"They just fall off. There's no reason why. You'll just be riding along and there they'll be like a bleeding carrot in the middle of the road lying in pain."

That is bloody funny

federalski

After Frank crashed out Andy was asked how he fancied his chances.
Sure he said " Without Frank, I'm fucked"

knedlicky

“Just because I dropped a clanger doesn’t mean I had to eat glass”
(Gadret talking earlier this week about the incident with Roche)

Actually, in French, Gadret said ‘eat a windscreen’, referring to Roche’s having said “I wanted to smash his head in, and had visions of a baldy French climber exiting through the windscreen” …. but ‘to eat glass’ is the (appropriate) English idiom.

Gadret also said he felt Roche was wrong going public about it, when it had already been more than discussed the same day in the team bus. I suppose he's right.