I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

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

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.