10 Quotes by Historical Greats and Celebs You Never Knew Loved Cycling

By White House Press Office (WHPO) - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Public Domain, 

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike" - John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

 By Nationaal Archief 

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short and you feel. But ride. —Eddy Merckx, Greatest Cyclist Ever, Winner of 11 Grand Tours, 5 Monuments, and 3 world championships. 
   

By Lloyd Arnold, Public Domain

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them" - Ernest Hemingway, American novelist
  

By minds-eye - Rat Dog Bob Weir, CC BY-SA 2.0

“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” — Bob Weir, Grateful Dead singer, songwriter and guitarist
 
  

By Mathew Brady - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.04761.

“Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” — Mark Twain, American author and humourist

By Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3f06148.

“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
 
 

By George Charles Beresford - National Portrait Gallery: NPG x13208

“Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race.” — H.G. Wells, English author
 

By Engraved by G.E. Perine & Co., NY 

“The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” — Susan B. Anthony, US women's rights activist
 

By Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public Domain

“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist, genius
 

By Montclair Film Festival - https://www.flickr.com/photos/montclairfilmfest/3... CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/montclairfilmfest/3...

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." — Bill Nye, US celebrity scientist