More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.