“I always rode for myself.” — Eddy Merckx Quote

“I always rode for myself.”

“No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean.”

“Riders are not criminals.”

“I think I was three or four when I first rode and four when I first crashed.”

“I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.”

“I had great faith in Prince Of Penzance, from the moment I rode him for the first time.”