Miguel Indurain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Father #Weather #Waiting
To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Beautiful #Free Life #Beautiful Things
Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Pain #Race #Cycling
I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Race #Cycling #Suffering
My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Riders #Balanced
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

#Broken Heart #Sports #Winning
If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Character #Born #Aggressive
I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Winning #Trying
I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.
-- Miguel Indurain

#Feels #Prove

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as â€œFather.â€
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and reposeâ€”the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.
We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Miguel Indurain famous quotes

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