It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

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

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

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.