The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.