There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

I become a happier man each time I suffer