Greg LeMond Quotes

• There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn’t happen when I was racing.

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• There are few things that you can’t do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

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• Testing, we will never do enough of it.

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• Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

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• Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife’s life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

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• More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

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• It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

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• I’m more optimistic about cycling right now than I’ve ever been.

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• I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I’m 38, not quite finished yet.

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

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• I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

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• I know I’ll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

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• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying.

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• Even good people are obliged to deceive.

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

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• You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

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Greg LeMond (16)

Birth:	26th June, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cyclist, Racer

About

Greg LeMond is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He is also an entrepreneur and anti-doping advocate. LeMond won the World Championship twice and the Tour de France three times. He was born in Lakewood, California, and raised in ranch country on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, near Carson City, Nevada He is married and has three children with his wife Kathy, with whom he supports a variety of charitable causes and organizations.

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