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.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It’s got to be in the right place.
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’m cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
The team wasn’t just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.
I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don’t think anybody says yes.
I tried to control the narrative.
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
We all want to be forgiven. There’s a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.