54 Inspirational Cycling Quotes to Motivate You

Cycling has become one of the most popular sports and fitness activities in the world, with people of all ages incorporating it into their workout routines. If you want to give cycling a try, but lack the motivation to do so, there’s a lot of inspirational material out here to motivate you to start.

This article offers you the 54 most inspirational cycling quotes to motivate you to start cycling.

54 Inspirational Cycling Quotes to Motivate You

Inspirational Cycling Quotes from Real Cyclists

1. “The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most.” – Eddy Merckx

2. “When your legs scream stops and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it there.” – Chris McCormack

3. “If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don’t go for it, you definitely won’t win.” – Jens Voigt

4. “Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.” — Kristin Armstrong

5. “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

6. “Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride” – Eddy Merckx

7. “Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.” – Eddy Merckx

8. “The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it.” – Doug Bradbury

9. “I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment… a job.” – Bernard Hinault

10. “When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!” – Jens Voigt

11. “As long as I breathe, I attack.” – Bernard Hinault

12. “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

13. “It never gets easier; you just get faster.” – Greg LeMond

14. “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

15. “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

16. “The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” – John Howard

17. “It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels” – Heinz Stucke

18. “Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love.” – Johan Museeuw

19. “My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike… It’s sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, ‘I wish I had done more.” – Graeme Obree

20. “When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride.” – Ned Overend

Inspirational Cycling Quotes from Other Professionals

21. “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.” – Desmond Tutu

22. “The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” – William Saroyan

23. “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.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

24. “Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

25. “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” – John F. Kennedy

26. “The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.” – Louis Baudry de Saunier

27. “I’m in control, liberated, and free when I’m on my bike.” – Erin O’Connor

28. “Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” – Charles M. Schultz

29. “I thought of that (Theory of Relativity) while riding my bicycle.” – Albert Einstein

30. “Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave.” – James E Starts

31. “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

32. “Cyclers 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

33. “Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain

34. “Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” – Bob Weir

35. “Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” – H.G. Wells

36. “Think of bicycles as ridable art that can just about save the world.” – Grant Petersen

37. “Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness.” – Mehmet Murat ildan

38. “A raggedy ride beats a dressed-up walk.” – Simon Peat

39. “Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” – Lord Charles Beresford

40. “When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments.” – Elizabeth West

41. “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race.” – H.G. Wells

42. “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.” – [former] US President George W. Bush

43. “A bicycle is the finest mode of transport known to man.” – Adam Hart-Davis

44. “Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it.” – Hallman

45. “Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment.” – Jeremy Corbyn

46. “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.” – Ernest Hemingway

47. “Nature loves bicycles because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

48. “Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.” – Bill Nye

49. “Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” – Hugh Pearman

50. “Cycling has encountered more enemies than any other form of exercise.” – 19th-century author Louis Baudry de Saunier

51. “Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

52. “There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.” – David Byrne

53. “The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.” – Ann Strong

54. “You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you’re glad to be there.” – Richard Virenque