It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

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.

He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.