Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.