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

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.

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Composers are always going back to the past.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

It’s being reported that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September. And that’s just people leaving the White House.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.