Eddy Merckx quotes:
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Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
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Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing
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Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
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There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.
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All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naïve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,
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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
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In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
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I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.
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I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.