The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

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

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

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

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

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'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

I don't care... Actually i do... That's the whole problem...

Government is waging war against the people.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.