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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.