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

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.