Favorite quotes from the peloton

[mihaibu]

Le Blaireau

"Demain je vais vous faire sentir les imbéciles" - "Tomorrow, i'll make you fell like idiots". Bernard Hinault, emerging in front of the peloton and speaking to the riders, during a flat stage before a difficult hilly stage during the Tour.

 

[PuncturedTyre]

Favorite quotes from the peloton ....

i read through the whole thread, and have enjoyed reading them all.

Theo Bos / Daryl Impey comment, i found very funny !!

for me, this remains one of the ooh quotes, often heard by many.

"I have never tested positive"......

 

[Animal]

for me, this remains one of the ooh quotes, often heard by many.

"I have never tested positive"......

Damn! Beat me to it!

 

[podilato]

Stupid Duffield

I remember a quote from the infamous D.Duffield during the Tour of Poland 2 or 3 years ago. I found it rather disturbing.

Co-Commentator: Tommorow's stage is pretty flat. It does have a bit of a kink in it in the middle.

D.Duffield: A kink? Who's he? What part of China is he from?


What an idiot!

 

[boalio]

"Ferdy attack now. France ready?"

-Ferdinand Kübler

+1

Still one of my all time favourite quotes.

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

"Ferdy shut up now or Ferdy get head knocked in."

~Raphaël Geminiani

 

[PuncturedTyre]

Damn! Beat me to it!

i had to read through them all to make sure no one had used it !!

i found another one this morning :

LA "anyone he's interviewed for the book has got a personal axe to grind with me and should not be believed"

infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me...

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

"Soler may have hung on for a top five - poor guy. He could taste the podium champagne until Di Luca dumped vinegar in it. Well, they don't call him the "killer" for nothing."

~CN live commentator

 

[Bala Verde]

This is mainly for te dutch speaking crowd, some of them are quite hilarious. Wish you all spoke dutch... so much more entertaining commentary

(I am not even going to try to translate this, maybe later upon request)

http://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maarten_Ducrot

Ze hebben hier met één of andere teertraktor wat vloeibare zooi d'rop gekwakt.

Zo! Die Fedrigo heeft een neus als een zinksnijder

Mayo werd altijd 180e in de tijdrit, en dan waren er 100 renners in koers.

Mayo always came in 180th in a TT, and then we're only talking about a field of 100 riders.

Wat een telefoonrekening zullen die oude wijven daarachter in die auto's hebben

Oh gelukkig! Hij schakelt weer naar het binnenblad. Dan begrijp ík het ook weer

Ah, finally! He shifts down to the smaller chainring. Now I get it again.

Mijn moeder, ze is 71, zou hem nu gewoon voorbijfietsen!" Reactie van collegaverslaggever Herbert Dijkstra: "Met een kinderzitje op het stuur!

My mom, she is 71 now, would just ride past him! (co-commentator): With a child bike seat on her handlebars (about Landis, La Toussuire)

Cancellara rijdt alsof tie een brommer heeft ingeslikt

Cancellara rides as if he has swallowed a moped

Als Klöden wat heeft, dan is het meteen iets ergs.. Als hij bijvoorbeeld valt op een training, dan scheurt hij meteen z'n halve schouder eraf

When something's wrong with Kloeden, it's always something really bad... If he crashes out on a training ride, his whole shoulder rips off

Carbon is een soort gesteven papier mache...

Carbon is almost like stiffened paper mache..

Als dit Contador niet is vreet ik alsnog een stuk uit de vloer!

If that's not Contador, I'll chew up a piece from the floor!

Zo kom je niet weg, dit is een demarrage alsof je eerst naar huis belt en zegt 'Mam, opletten, ik ga demarreren!'.

That's not a way to break away from the pack, that's a demarrage as if you'd call home and say 'Mommy, watch me, I am about to go in the break away'

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and so on...

 

[Furbo_]

"¡Manzano, me cago en tu puta madre! ¡Como no ataques me voy a follar a tus hijas!"
- Vicente Belda to Jesús Manzano (Original version)

"Manzano, I sh*t on your f*cking mother! If you don't attack I'll f*ck your daughters!"
- Vicente Belda to Jesús Manzano (Translation)

 

[fergnago]

i like my signature.

 

[ElChingon]

i like my signature.

? What are you talking about?

 

[fergnago]

? What are you talking about?

A universal dream of greatness is that
We push ourselves to the limit
Yet still be brilliant when the chips are down.
Sometimes
The struggle kills the dream.
(commentator 1989 tour De France)

 

[VeloFidelis]

"You'd see him there, attacking, with that smile on his face, and you couldn't tell whether he was tired, faking it, or laughing at you."

Claudio Chiappucci commenting on Miguel Indurain

 

[franciep10]

Cycling is like church. Many attend, but few understand. -Jim Burlant

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

“You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money... I love bike racing.”

~Greg LeMond

 

[ak-zaaf]

Cycling is like church. Many attend, but few understand. -Jim Burlant

awesome...

 

[whiteboytrash]

"When I began to think about coming back, I knew that because there had been questions in the past, many of which we considered to be unfounded, I knew that there would be questions about performance. Like there are questions about all kinds of performance, if it's a 100 metre dash at the Olympic Games or if it's the 100 metre free style at the Olympic Games, people will question good performances, and I doubt that I can perform well.
But in the off chance that I do perform well, I didn't want to leave any doubt, and so I reached out to Don and asked him to oversee this program, to be completely independent, completely removed, for me to do whatever he asked me, I would do whatever he asked me to do. I think it's a landmark program. I think it's the first time where an athlete can actually be totally validated in the chance that he's successful.

In my opinion is that Don Catlin is beyond reproach. He is one of the foremost researchers in the Anti-Doping Movement. His CV is a mile long and I don't need to try to repeat it, but I have told Don and I told him last night and I will continue to tell him this. Don I have myself, I have my bicycle and I have my cause, you come whenever and however you want to come in order to validate these performances. And I felt like that was an important part of this equation as well."

 

[croix_de_fer]

This thread should be sticky...it's great. Thanks.

 

[180mmCrank]

"Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill"

Fausto Coppi

Do you think he new something we don't

 

[Furbo_]

1969 Ronde van Vlaanderen. During the race, after Eddy's attack with 70 kms to go:

Guillaume Driessens (Faema DS) to Eddy: “Are you nuts? You'll die in the headwind, wait for the group!”

Eddy Merckx: "Go f*ck yourself!"

Merckx won with over 5 minutes on Gimondi (2nd).

 

[Stubble]

After stage 13 of the 2005 Giro, Rory Sutherland responded to the question "How was it":
"Can I really say? F***ing hard. Unbelievable. I think they found every climb in Italy today. Tomorrow we've got to do it again."

You look OK...

"I'm not OK, I'm screwed. I think it's pretty normal when you race for seven and a half hours. I looked at my computer and we had climbed for 5500 metres of climbing. I'm not trying to whinge about it but it gets a bit ridiculous. You could do half the climbs and have the same result. Now you just make people pull out of the race and that's a shame."

 

[Boeing]

"If you brake, you don't win." Mario Cipollini

gets my vote

 

[stephen-48]

On winning the Ronde

1969 Ronde van Vlaanderen. During the race, after Eddy's attack with 70 kms to go:

Guillaume Driessens (Faema DS) to Eddy: “Are you nuts? You'll die in the headwind, wait for the group!”

Eddy Merckx: "Go f*ck yourself!"

Merckx won with over 5 minutes on Gimondi (2nd).

Apparently Driessens said to Merckx at the finish `Now I understand, the only tactic is winning'.

 

[Vanderaerden's perm]

God bless RDV4ROUBAIX for this thread!

"We were f***ing sh*t" - Jens Voigt's response to a journo' s question of why the German team performed so badly at last year's road champs.

"Climbers suffer riding up mountains just as much as everyone else, we just suffer at a higher speed" - Robert Millar

Sean Kelly's wife once asked him if his car meant more to him then she did. He replied "No. The bike comes first, then the car, then you!"