A few of our favorite quotes from The Quotable Cyclist:"Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride." —John F. Kennedy"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." —Christoper Morley"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia." —H. G. Wells"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live." —Mark Twain"It is easy to be a holy man on a mountain bike." —Mark W. Matson"If you brake, you don't win." —Mario Cipollini"There is no room in the Tour for the sick or the weak." —Laurent Jalabert"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." —James E. Starrs"As long as I breathe, I attack." —Bernard Hinault"Ride like water." —Paul Adkins"Cyclists worship legs." —Nelson Pena"Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?" —Flann O'Brien"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." —John Howard"Bicycles have no walls." —Paul Cornish"The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom." —P. J. O'Rourke"The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind." —William Saroyan"Everything is bicycle." —Stephen CraneContentsPrologueLoveMountain BikingRoad RidingClimbingDescendingSpeed, Sprinting and the Noiseless RushTrainingFitnessRacingWinning and LosingCrashesThe First RideRiding with StyleDesireThe Tour de France and Other Great RacesLegends, Myths and ChampionsPaid to PedalAdventureEquipmentEverything is BicycleA Vehicle for RevolutionWomen in CyclingHateGeneral Classification Read Less