We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

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'.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.