In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.