It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.