I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

I race to win, not to please people

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

As long as I breathe, I attack.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

Happy to be here, proud to serve.

I have friends, they love me, the use me, they leave.This has always been a cycle.Until you came and ruined everything.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist.

When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.