SPRINT SELZER BICYCLE CLUB

QUOTES
Things you hear on RAGBRAI


It could be just about anything.




1. Stop at the first bar on the right, unless it's on the left.

2. Drink up, Shriners! It's time to go!

3. It just doesn't matter.

4. We're on Sprint time.

5. Pass me the Jack Daniels. I need to clean my teeth.

6. I need a smoke. There's too much oxygen around here. ~Burger

7. If you're not having any fun, lower your standards.

8. It's Noon! We're half way!

9. A bad day on RAGBRAI is better than a good day at work. ~Jamie Cowells

10. Just another day in Paradise.

11. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

12. What is it with bikers and pie? ~Brooklyn

13. If ignorance is bliss, then I am ecstatic most of the time.

14. 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.  Thus
you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a
high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of
country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
~Ernest Hemingway

15. LONG RIDER CREED: Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

16. If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. ~Lewis Carroll

17. To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese proverb

18. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. ~Spiro T. Agnew

19. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ~Lance Armstrong

20. You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing! 
~Greg LeMond

21. What happens in the corn field-stays in the corn field!

22. When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments.  Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter the body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, "Hovel in the Hills"

23. Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy


24. ABC News interview with Lance Armstrong after RAGBRAI 34: "I've been on a lot of bike rides, but nothing like this... It took me an hour to figure out that I would be coming back. ...That's what these people do. They ride all day long. They eat coconut cream pie, pork chops, beer, and they keep riding. That's epic!"

25. After six beers, anything you say doesn't count. ~Danny Dunn

26. The eating is getting in the way of my drinking and biking. ~Brady Muff

27. The biking is getting in the way of my eating and drinking. ~Ashley

28. The road goes on forever and the party never ends. ~Keen Robert Earl

29. Welcome to the dark side. ~Danny to Barb on her first hypotenuse

30. If you have a kick stand, you can park anywhere. ~Terry Klein

31. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep going you must keep your balance. ~Albert Einstein

32. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. ~Emo Phillips

33. Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. ~Mark Twain

34. Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~H.G. Wells

35. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
~Christopher Morley



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Last updated on June 27, 2008