The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

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.

Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.