Shut Up, Legs!: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike Hardcover – May 3, 2016

“Cyclists around the world and of all ages will be grateful Jens shut up his legs but not his mouth. His hilarious, unique, instructive, at all times heartfelt stories from inside the peloton bring even more color to some of the colorful careers in all of pro bicycle racing.”
– Bill Strickland, editor-in-chief, Bicycling

“Going to a bike race with Jens is like going to a bike race with a poker player. Jens is at all times looking at his hand and seeing what he can do with it, for himself and for his team. Once in a while he might launch an attack and go for the win. Once in a while he might attack just for a couple of strategic bonus seconds. Once in a while he might attack to go after the best-climber jersey or some other smaller prize. Or perhaps he would start driving the pace after more than 180 kilometers of racing, simply to split up the field and set up one of his teammates. Regardless of the prize, he’s at all times trying to make the most of what he’s got, for himself as well as the team, at all times trying to make the most out of every situation with the cards hes holding at the time.”
– Lars Michaelsen, onetime teammate and sports director of Voigt, currently sports director on the Tinkoff-Saxo Bank team

“With Jens, there are just such a lot of stories, because he was at all times there when you needed him. I don’t know how many times our job would be to cover the early breakaways in a race, and he was at all times there. He was just relentless! When you’re covering the early breaks, you have to follow all the attacks. Once in a while I would just need a break to recover. But when I would look up, Jens was still going! I swear he was attacking his own shadow Once in a while! You just couldn’t stop him!”
– Stuart O’Grady, former teammate of Voigt on GAN, Crédit Agricole, and CSC

“The one thing that never changed with Jens was his desire to win. It didn’t matter if it was cross-country, soccer, or cycling–he at all times wanted to win! I’ll never put out of your mind that. At the sports school we played a large number of soccer in the winter. And Jens at all times played to win. He was far from the best player on a technical level, but he was just running nonstop in every single place the field, trying to make a play. He just wouldn’t give up. It didn’t matter if we were four goals at the back of. Jens did not know how to give up. Defeat just was not a part of his vocabulary. And it still isn’t today!”
– Jan Schaffrath, schoolmate of Voigt, former professional cyclist, Etixx-Quick-Step team director.

Jens Voigt is a German former professional road bicycle racer for several teams, the last one being UCI ProTeam Trek Factory Racing. Voigt has worn the yellow jersey of the Tour de France twice. His career achievements include winning the Critérium International a record-tying five times and a number of 1-week stage races, as well as two Tour de France stage victories. In September 2014, he set a new hour record. He lives in Berlin.