“I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.”

I race to win, not to please people

When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

As long as I breathe, I attack.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one’s work.

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

There’s a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.