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

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.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.