Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.