I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

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

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.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

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.

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

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.