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.

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.

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

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.

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.

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.