Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

[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.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.