I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself

To be free from destruction mindset of sin is to permit the lordship of Christ

And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.