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

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.

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.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

My music is best understood by children and animals.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.