I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle its not going to be satisfying. – Greg LeMond
You dont suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. – Greg LeMond
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. – Greg LeMond
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne