Quotes by Riding Your Bike My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around. Brooklyn Decker riding-your-bike independent children Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades. Eddy Merckx cyclists riding-your-bike cycling It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Ernest Hemingway riding-your-bike cycling country When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! Jens Voigt riding-your-bike cycling hurt Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly? Jodi Picoult tumbling-down riding-your-bike hurt Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. John F. Kennedy riding-your-bike cycling simple The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. Juli Furtado riding-your-bike simple secret I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Justin Theroux riding-your-bike cycling thinking The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike? Lance Armstrong riding-your-bike hard-work answers I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world. Mark Cavendish riding-your-bike cycling rain Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. Mark Twain riding-your-bike regret healing I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Max Baucus riding-your-bike cycling thinking When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did. Pauly Shore riding-your-bike care kids If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. Ralph Waldo Emerson riding-your-bike motorcycle rain