The Climb Quotes

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.’ Nelson Mandela”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“Teaching a boy the discipline required for riding and training, as well as self-denial, put him on a road to the sort of self-fulfilment that he might never have dreamed about or have been able to achieve on his own. It gave him his first sense of possibility. The”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“To minimize the risk of abduction by an accountancy firm, I let my hair grow long and lank, wore bangles, dressed in hemp and kikoys and drove around in a rickety white VW Golf car with tinted silver windows. It was the sort of car that only a cyclist could love.”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“It’s love though. Every ache and chill. Me and my Colnago and these hills. In love, everybody hurts. If you are serious about hills and bikes, it hurts.”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“Can you prove it? No. I know I’m clean. Can I prove it? No. You heard it all before from Lance Armstrong. Well, I’m not Lance Armstrong. You won’t get fooled again. Not by me you won’t, ever.”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“We exist in our cadence.”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography

“Blessed are the meek for early in the race they shall inherit the front of the peloton.”
― Chris Froome, The Climb: The Autobiography