What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

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.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

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

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.