There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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

This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

History: A distillation of rumor.