I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

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.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.