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

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

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

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.