One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

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.

you create your world with your thoughts

Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet].

Hope is a trust in a Supreme.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.