I was the strongest during my career, and that helped me a lot, definitely in the beginning, when I needed to race against riders who were much older…

- Sven Nys

At the end of my career, I was, most of the time, a rider who came out of the background and won races just like that. I stayed calm and used my expe…

- Sven Nys

I don't miss racing, but I miss the time to train every day, to do the workouts, because I'm busy with a lot of things now. But if I have space durin…

- Sven Nys

After 20 years of racing career the most important lessons I learned is that you need to have the passion and really love to ride your bike every day…

- Sven Nys

With the schedule I created for myself, I saw a lot of times that others copied what I did. And if you copy somebody, you are always too late. And th…

- Sven Nys

In 1997, when I started as a professional athlete, my sport was not like it is now. I needed to develop myself to beat the next generation, but thing…

- Sven Nys

If you see that your sport is changing, you need to change yourself and think about it and work with people around you who are really smart in what t…

- Sven Nys