“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.”

“Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.”

“Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.”

“For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.”

“I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.”

“I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.”

“I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.”

“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.”

“If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.”

“If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.”

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

“It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.”

“It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.”

“It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.”

“Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.”

“Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.”

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”

“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.”

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

“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 riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.”

“There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'”

“There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.”

“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.”

“Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.”

“Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.”