Bernard Hinault Quotes

When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.

Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I'm not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I'm just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

Damien Hirst knows how to drive super-fast cars... I love my bicycle.

Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.