Greg LeMond Quotes

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

If you play tennis it is to have these moments, moments of adrenaline, where it gets dangerous. It is a bit masochistic.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Sports is my passion.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

I love the fast lane.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Racing's my life.

At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating; I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.