We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

Fear is priceless education.