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The 5th Spot

Published October 12, 2011

"You need just as much drive to be a good businessman as you do to excel as an athlete. The difference is that the athlete knows how good he's doing at the end of the day by looking at his results. The businessman doesn't know until the end of the year when he looks at his balance sheet."

—Eddy Merckx, as quoted in a Merckx feature story in Bicycling's 50th anniversary issue.

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