You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

There are no races. Only lotteries.

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

It was eleven more than neccessary.

Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Being gifted needs courage.

I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Not everyone is as nice as us.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.