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I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had 'Time Out' on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.
I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.
I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.
I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.
I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
A lot of the riders end up in Monaco, but I don't need to be there for the tax purposes because I'm from the Isle of Man.
When you win sprints, you're a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you've proved you're a great rider.
I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.
I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.
I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.
It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.
I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
There are two things I eat that I know I shouldn't: chocolate and ice cream. You only live once, so I am going to eat chocolate.
I'd love to have my achievements recognised and for people to know enough about cycling to understand what my achievements mean.
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
At the end of the day I want to be the first rider across that finish line and I'll just find the quickest and easiest way to do it.
I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.
My wife is so hot so I don't care it I lose every stage of the 2015 Tour to Kittle. Yea, he's got cool hair but my wife is super hot.
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
Look, at some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate to be the guy to do it, but it's just not real.
During the Tour you get tired, you get exhausted, you're in pain and you can get sick for a few days but still have to ride through it.
On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.