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.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.