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

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

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

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 doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

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.