Velodrome Cycling Quotes & Sayings

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls. — Lucy Powell

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically . — D.H. Lawrence

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? — Karen Horney

Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. — Mark Nepo

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. — Potter Stewart

One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One. — Thomas Aquinas

It's in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out. — Edward James Olmos

He spilled my diet soda! — CM Punk

He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it. — John Cleese

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive... — Soraya Lane

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre. — Lucy Powell