It was eleven more than neccessary.

- Jacques Anquetil

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulan…

- Jacques Anquetil

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

- Jacques Anquetil

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

- Jacques Anquetil

Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.

- Jacques Anquetil

For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of…

- Jacques Anquetil

There are no races. Only lotteries.

- Jacques Anquetil