Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.