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

I race to win, not to please people

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.

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

Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

Once you beat yourself, you will beat the world.

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.