Peter Sagan Quotes

“Cycling is a very tough sport. I wouldn't want my own kid, if I ever had one, to be a pro cyclist.”

“Don’t take this personally, but I don’t like doing interviews. I don’t like thinking about the things I do. I just want to have fun.”

“Everything is experience for the future.”

“Everything is experience for the future. Today I realized that I can win a classic.”

“Famous? Haha, I'm not famous.”

“I always race to win.”

“I didn't know how to tie a tie. I had to google video instructions.”

“I do it like Forrest Gump. When they told him to run, he ran. When they tell me to win, I win.”

“I don't want to be compared to other riders. I want to be Peter Sagan.”

“I expected that I'd have to do a lot of training, cycling, winning. I didn't expect I'd have to do a lot of interviews.”

“I guess I still prefer mountain biking, but then, road cycling can make a living.”

“I think it's important to be yourself. We've all got a personality. I think we've got to believe in ourselves.”

“I want a rich girlfriend who will take care of me.”

“I want to win everything!”

“I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope.”

“I'm a young guy. I still don't know what my limits are.”

“I've had a lot of bike crashes. Once a car ran me over in a parking lot. I also had a head-on collision with a car and smashed through its front window.”

“I’m glad so many people came to see the clown in green.”

“I’m so pissed off I don’t even wanna talk now! Once again someone wanted to lead the peloton and crashed and took down half the riders, including me. This is how it ends up when a rider who pushes his way in the front to win is someone who just doesn’t have what it takes! I just don’t understand what Farrar was doing there!”

“If I can be an example for someone, it's a good thing.”

“Just do what you love doing. That's my only advice.”

“My brother persuaded me to try cycling and I realised it was the best thing in the world. People thought we were strange but I couldn’t have cared less.”

“My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.”

“Only a natural disaster will prevent me from winning the green jersey.”

“There will always be someone to criticize me for what I do, but I don’t care what they think.”

“There will always be someone to criticize me for what I do, but I don’t care what they think.”

“To be honest, cycling is a boring sport to me. Boring to watch. When it’s on TV I watch only the last five kilometers or the final sprint. Nothing more. I just can’t stand watching it for 4 or 5 hours. That’s why I do these wheelies and victory celebrations at the finish. I do it all for people, to encourage their interest in the sport, to liven it up, to make it at least a bit exciting to watch. And yes, maybe then they’ll think ‘I hope Sagan wins today so we can see what he’s got for us this time’. I don’t mean to show disrespect to my competitors, I only want to bring some thrill into the sport because that’s what cycling lacks and needs so desperately.”

“Uphill, downhill, I like that.”

“We’ll see.”

“You ‘mustn’t’ nothing in your life. I don’t ‘must’ nothing in the life, just die.”

“You have to be brash if you want to win.”

“A plan is only worth what it is worth, and nothing more.”

“But it is not about luck, it is the plan, which has worked.”

“I prefer to be on the podium, rather than on the bus, arguing with the team about what has gone wrong.”

“If I want to win, I have to be able to compete. And if I want to compete, I have to train.”

“Isn't it better to lose a great race than to win a boring one? I'm not sure. I will keep trying to win big races in the future so I don't have to keep asking myself that question.”

“Life can change in the blink of an eye. Some doors are closing, while others are opening. You can win, or you can go to the ground. In a matter of an instant you can fall in love; or you can lose someone very close.”

“No matter what good day you think you have, remember that there could always be someone else enjoying an equally good day, and who is smarter than you.”

“This is a curious anomaly that cycling has: an individual sport that is practiced as a team.”