When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

Cycling has given me everything.

If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

When you're in the heat of the moment, you need guys you can trust and who have been there for you.

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

I come from a long line of generations!

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.