I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!

Frightfully pale and perpetually odd

It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.