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.

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

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

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

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 key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering