#cling

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#any #better #could #cycling #dreamed

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#believe #cars #cling #convictions #drive

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

#cycling #emerge #eventually #every #exception

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#cling #die #else #fame #get

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#died #happen #i #many #people

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #clings #condition #contract #long

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cling #come #cry #feed #horror

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cling #faith #fanatics #go #let go