“I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.”

I race to win, not to please people

When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

As long as I breathe, I attack.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one’s work.

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

There’s a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

Begin challenging your own assumptions.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.