Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.