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.

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

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

Fear is priceless education.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.