I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.

The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

The purpose of sound is silence.

There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.