I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

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

I'm not a patient person.

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.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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

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