"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."

Effort, Excellence, Struggle

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"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."

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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

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"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

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"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

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"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

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"I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet."

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"I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold."

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"More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made."

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"I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose."

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"You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing."

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"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."

Effort, Excellence, Struggle