I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

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

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

I still don't get golf.