Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

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.