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

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

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.

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

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.