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 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.

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.

I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.