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.”

“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.”