Even Good People Are Obliged To Deceive.

The Problem With Being A Tour De France Winner Is You Always Have That Feeling Of Disappointment If You Don't Win Again. That's The Curse Of The Tour De France.

It Doesn't Get Any Easier; You Just Get Faster.

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.

I'm More Optimistic About Cycling Right Now Than I've Ever Been.

I Know Too That We Americans Like To Think Of Ourselves As Cleaner Than Clean, A Healthy Nation Who Would Never Take Anything When A Recent Poll Suggested That 65 Per Cent Of The Population Would Risk Dying In 10 Years If They Would Be Guaranteed Olympic Gold.