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

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.