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

It never gets easier; you just go 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.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self disruption.

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

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