If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

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

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.