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“I always wanted to grab life in both hands. Otherwise, what’s the point of being on this earth?”
― Laurent Fignon, We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon

“What made it harder to stomach was the fact that the pilot of the helicopter with the television cameras was particularly keen to do his job to the best of his ability by coming as close as he could to get pictures of me, even though he was almost mowing the number off my back with his rotor-blades. Obviously, the turbulence he caused pushed enough wind at me to slow me down a fair bit. Two or three times I came close to crashing and shook my fist at him. Guimard was beside himself with rage. So was I. In normal circumstances, if all the stages had been run off in the usual way, or even with the bare minimum of morality, the time trial would only have been of secondary importance because the race would have been decided well before. And I would have won my first Giro d’Italia in the most logical way possible. Instead of which my chest burned with pain: the pain you feel at injustice.”
― Laurent Fignon, We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon

“In life, just as in sport, you must never ever let an opportunity go.”
― Laurent Fignon, We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon