Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.