You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

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