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Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.
I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.
Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.
I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.
I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.
People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.
I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
If you don't enjoy something you can't keep at it. That's the thing that sticks with me.
They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.
Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.
The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.
But you have to take asthma seriously. People do not realise the stress our bodies go under.
Sometimes it can be more tiring with the kids than on the bike but I'm absolutely loving it.
If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid
I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.
Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.