Jacques Anquetil
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.Collection: Water
You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.Collection: Hypocrite
To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.Collection: Cycling
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulantsCollection: Race
There are no races. Only lotteries.Collection: Cycling
Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.Collection: Dope
It was eleven more than neccessary.Collection: Cycling