"I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing."

-- Richard Virenque

#Hero Quotes #Cycling Quotes

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”
“Women love firefighters so much because itâ€™s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.”
“If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
“When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.”
“Mike Tyson has to be one of my greatest all time fighters. Muhammad Ali. I like going back looking at the classics like Roberto Duran. I like the old time fighters, when you had a champion in the old days you really had a true champion. Muhammad Ali would take on anybody. You had the greats fighting everybody.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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