Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.

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

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I tried to control the narrative.