When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

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.

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

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.

Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.

By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.