Great quotes from Pro Riders

CiB

The team manager who expressed surprised at accusations of drug-taking in the TdF:

"You don't so something like this on lettuce leaves and fizzy water"

greasedscotsman

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing"

Jan Ullrich

(probably...)

rick_chasey

I like this Boonen one, but only as the (poor) English translation:

“I was unable to move up one gear but I still managed to keep pedaling and win that great sprint as you all saw.”

LittleLance

"...they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That's Paris–Roubaix. It's that bad - it's ridiculous." - Chris Horner

nevman

Just found this

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.

nevman

and this

Sean Kelly is met by his wife after a the ’84 Amstel Gold Race and they get in his Citroen AX: “Ah, Sean” says his beloved wife, “in your life the car comes first, then the bike, then me.” “You got the order wrong,” Kelly scowls, “the bike comes first.”

prb007

LittleLance wrote:

"...they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That's Paris–Roubaix. It's that bad - it's ridiculous." - Chris Horner

this one just about fits in here, even though its' from the MTB world,
Rob Warner is an ex-pro, after all..

'HOW DOES DANNY HART SIT DOWN WITH BALLS THAT BIG!!!'

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Danny-Hart-2011.html

19 years old and a World Champion, ffs

heavymental

Yossie, are you busy screwing a silencer onto a sniper rifle as we speak? Sound like you got an unhealthy obsession here, fella!

phillips352

"I get paid to hurt other people. How good is that? How good is that? I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, that's good." Jens Voigt

Roobsa

MaxwellBygraves wrote:

fastandfurry wrote:

"Training is like fighting a gorilla; you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired" - Greg Henderson

Don't get it.

You stop, you get beaten. You don't stop, you beat it. That's how I read it anyway.

Monty Zoncolan

I just remembered one on the way to work.

When Robert Millar was asked what the first week of the TDF was all about, he said "wearing out a set of brake blocks a day and learning to swear in lots of different languages."

steelcat

It's a circus, and I don't want to be one of the clowns." - Chris Boardman (Speaking before the start on British Eurosport)

speaking about paris roubaix