Eddy Merckx famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
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All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naïve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,
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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
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Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing
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I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
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There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
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I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.
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In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
-- Eddy Merckx
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Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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