At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me.

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

You live in my head all the time.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

We've got a big happy, one corporate family now uniting the corporate Democrats and the corporate Republicans.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.