If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
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.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain…. Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said. ’ ‘I don’t understand the question. ’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!
I don't type [when I write] because. . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.