To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain. Sure the sport is fun with its seamless pacelines and secret singletrack, its post-ride pig-outs and soft muscles grown wonderfully hard. But at cycling's core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic gold medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport.
--Scott Martin

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
--H.G. Wells

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I don't want to win unless I know I've done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit. "
---Steve Prefontaine