It never gets easier; you just go faster.

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.

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.

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

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.