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.

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.

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.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Few great things are achieved effortlessly.

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

Winners take the action that others won't.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Truth never perishes.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.