I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

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.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

I'm lazy, I like to do it right the first time.

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.