Giving Up Was Never An Option

Pain Is Temporary. It May Last A Minute, Or An Hour, Or A Day, Or A Year, But Eventually It Will Subside And Something Else Will Take Its Place. If I Quit, However, It Lasts Forever.

I Know What Happened To Cycling From 1999 To 2005. I Saw Its Growth, I Saw Its Expansion.

I've Given Gifts In The Tour De France And It's Come Back To Bit Me. So No Gifts.

But, Listen, Eddie Merkyx Would Have Won Six Tours If He Hadn't Been Punched.

But The Fact Is That I Wouldn't Have Won Even A Single Tour De France Without The Lesson Of Illness. What It Teaches Is This: Pain Is Temporary. Quitting Lasts Forever.