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

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 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.

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

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

If you want me to come and caddie for you full time, you've got to sit down and do some hard work and do some hard yards because that's what I expect.