I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

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.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

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