Quotes from Greg LeMond

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.

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

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

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

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

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.

I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

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.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

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

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

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.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.