I'm Lucky That Mountian Biking Wasn't Around

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.

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

Testing, We Will Never Do Enough Of It.

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.

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.