Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.