I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

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.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

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.

I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.

I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.

The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

More people should apologize and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them not for those to whom they are made.

It never gets easier you just go faster.

There are few things that you cant do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.

The finest memories are those where we have helped someone without expecting anything in return.

You must mentally prepare to conquer any situation.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.