Even Good People Are Obliged To Deceive.

There Are So Many People Who Have Died Of Cycling, And That Didn't Happen When I Was Racing.

Sincere Apologies Are For Those That Make Them, Not For Those To Whom They Are Made.

I Wanted To Be Seen As A Good Person, And Never Wanted To Let People Down, But I Found It Hard To Handle The Fame Or Adulation. I Didn't Feel Worthy Of It. I Was Ashamed By Who I Thought I Was Because I Felt Partly Responsible [for The Abuse] And I Was Never Able To Enjoy The Stuff I Should Have Been Able To Enjoy. My First Thought When I Won The Tour Was: 'my God, I'm Going To Be Famous', And Then I Thought, 'he's Going To Call'. I Was Always Waiting For That Phone Call. I Lived In Fear That Anyone Would Ever Find Out.

There Is No Pill, No Drug, That Can Do For You What One Hour Of Exercise Can.

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.