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

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

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

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.