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from 2011 - Quotes
prior to 2011 “His
[Andy Schleck's] problem is Fränk and vice-versa. How they
rode the
Tour de Suisse is an example of that. They’re incomprehensible. They
cancel each other out in turn. I’d like to see him more decisive, but
instead he attacks and after four pedal strokes he turned around. He
gives the impression of being a radio-controlled rider.” - Mario Cipollini CyclingNews
"Starting
next year I would like to use Lars Boom as an example for me. He uses
cross as a part of his preparation for the road season. Lars combines
what is fun with what is useful, and I plan to do the same. If I were
to fail on the road, I can still go back to cross fulltime, but for now
that's not part of the plan."- Zdenek Stybar PodiumCafe
“Everyone
has to follow the rules: riders, teams, anti-doping authorities, and
the UCI. If those rules are bent or changed for
any one party, the sport becomes unfair and unjust to the other
parties. Our path in this case will be to follow the rules and legal
regulations set out for us.” - Jonathan Vaughters VeloNation
“I
started talking with Greipel during the Tour de France this year and
said, `Look, mate, I’ve had enough of being neglected by Sky.
So I thought I’m going to be put to lead-out duties there anyway and
I’d rather lead out a friend than lead out Mark Cavendish, especially
after what Sky had put me through. So we started talks with Lotto.” -
Greg Henderson VeloNews
“One
brother needs to say next year, ‘ok, I will go on the attack and you go
on the counter-attack’ but this year, they rode like
brothers. Each looked for the other, and this is not the right
tactic. It was nice for the Schlecks to be second and third, but it’s
not our goal to be third and second – we want to win.” - Andreas Klöden CyclingNews
"All
the work that we have been doing in recent years is starting to pay off
now. The biological passport is working very much as a
deterrent,
the no needles policy likewise. It helps to restore the credibility of
cycling and change the culture of doping. Step by step, we go forward
and any new methods to continue to improve the fight against doping,
we'll continue to introduce." - Pat McQuaid CyclingWeekly
“Police
arrested two kids yesterday: one was drinking battery acid, the other
was eating fireworks. They charged one - and let the other one off.” - Joe Papp EuroSport
“Velo News: Can you list a few
things you would you like to find in your holiday stocking this year
and why?
Floyd Landis: A time machine.” - JoE Silva VeloNews “Greg’s
[van Avermaet] got potential but he needs to be realistic. In
Ličge-Bastogne-Liege he didn’t take over once when the Schlecks
attacked. It showed he has limits and riders with limits can’t claim
leadership within BMC.” -
Philippe Gilbert Tour
de José
"I
have been experiencing a lot more injuries, and a lot more injuries due
to wear and tear. You can't turn back the hands of time, it just
naturally happens. I do this because I love training and when you can't
train the way you want to because your body says no, it's very
frustrating. I don't see myself having the ability to manage that
frustration for much longer." - Victoria Pendleton BikeRadar
"It’s
positive that you have more and more of the big teams supporting a
women’s team, that’s great. But honestly, it should be compulsory. It
would add 5-10 per cent to their overall budget and vastly expand their
following." -
Rochelle Gilmore CyclingNews
"I
would never have considered Taiwan as a spot for tourism or cycling
until this trip, but the rides there were some of the best I’ve ever
done, no joke. Since they actually use bikes for transportation in
Taiwan, there are bike lanes everywhere, and out in the country,
bike-specific roads connect all the small towns, sometimes through
really tight, barely-paved paths.” - Phil Gaimon VeloNews
"I
had nothing to do with any hacking and as far as I knew, the lab
documents I received while serving as an expert consultant to the legal
team for Floyd Landis were obtained legally.” - Arnie Baker CyclingNews
“No one really gives a rat’s ass what the French retards think anyways.” - Floyd Landis Cyclismas “When
there is a very mountainous Tour without too much time trial, he [Andy
Schleck] has got a chance. But only if [Alberto] Contador is not at his
best. Perhaps [Schleck] has missed his biggest chance to win - in
2011.” - Philippe Gilbert CyclingNews
"To
race and to continue to race, to win and to try to win, you must be
hungry; feel the fire inside. If you don’t win though, you need the
knowledge that you have given everything and did the maximum; that is
equivalent to a victory, even without a medal, or a cup, or the
prize-money." - Giorgia Bronzini VeloNation
“I
can’t accept all that’s happened and don’t want other riders to go
through what I have. If it’s not your intention to dope and you can
prove the facts of the situation then you shouldn’t be
punished." - Iljo Keisse VeloNation
“Actions
speak louder than words. I remember something JV tweeted to me a long
time ago, ‘Hang in there…bullies have a special place in my little
black heart.’" - Tyler Hamilton Cyclismas
“He [Johan Bruyneel] had been
depicted to me as being very firm and authoritarian in his management,
but I have to say that up to now the atmosphere has been very cool and
relaxed at this first meeting.” - Maxime Monfort CyclingNews
“I
remain optimistic, I always was. Therefore, I appeal to businesses,
trademarks, sponsors, who are willing and want to be number one in
profitability as we always have been, to join us and create, dream,
illusion, passionate, enjoy. .. To commit to us as we're going to do
with them, hopefully in the near future. We want to realize this dream,
and work harder than ever to get it.” - Joxean
Fernández
Matxin CyclingNews
“One
[Andy Schleck] appears to walk funny, the other is the brother. They’re
too skinny, and frankly, in the grand scheme of all things European,
they are a minor irrelevance popular only in a country of 500,000
inhabitants [referring to Luxembourg].” - Yannick
Noah Cyclismas
“It’s
[the Giro] good for me and if it was just what my heart said, I’d be
there. Next year I am going to think about different objectives, above
all the Tour de France. Although you can never say never, next year I
will not be back.” - Alberto Contador VeloCast
“You
can try but it’s gambling and it’s tricky for both the riders and the
managers. One thing is obvious, if they believe that Wiggins can go for
yellow they can’t compromise and give Cavendish four guys for the
sprints. If they stretch it and think both riders have chance of
achieving their goals, then honestly they don’t really believe in
Wiggins.” - Rolf Aldag TwistedSpoke
"At
the moment the questions surrounding the letters sent to sponsors are
not being answered by McQuaid or the UCI. The issue itself will simply
rot on the vine. And Pat McQuaid will be happy with that. Not for the
first - and I'm sure, not for the last - "because I say so" will be the
last word said on the matter because Pat McQuaid knows that that's all
he has to do. No investigation, no questions to answer, no judgement to
face." - Scott O'Raw VeloCast
"You
know, we don't care anymore about the threats of McQuaid. If he goes on
the way he has been going, maybe we will stop with everything or maybe
something else will happen." - Johan Bruyneel CyclingNews
“If
these letters are for real then they would be proof of the
extraordinary lengths the UCI will go to in order to protect its
interests, to the point of trying to endanger a company’s long term
commercial prospects in China. This could endanger investment, jobs,
trade and more and it has nothing to do with the administration of a
sport. It’s blackmail." - InnerRing InnerRing
“I expect the reason he [Pat
McQuaid] doesn’t want to sue me and I’m sure Lance Armstrong’s lawyers
think the same thing, is because they don’t want to give me an
opportunity to start exposing things. Then I get to subpoena people and
depose them. There’s also the fact that I’m telling the truth, which is
another problem for him." - Floyd Landis CyclingNews
“Levi
is so in tune with his body and he gives such great information. He’s
so disciplined, he’s so meticulous, that it’s almost tragic, right?
Because it prevents him from doing all these other things that he knows
will screw up his performance, like staying up late, being a regular
person.” - Allen Lim TwistedSpoke
“I
am an aiming for a top-10, top-5, maybe a podium. If it’s a great day,
we’ll see. Last year, I came into the worlds as a huge, hot favorite
for the U23 race. Now I am in this certain underdog, no-pressure,
young-gun, let’s-see-what-he-can-do type of scenario.” - Taylor
Phinney VeloNews
"I landed in Denmark to only
find out that I had been replaced. Three hours later in the airport I
am on my way home." - Kristin Armstrong VeloNation
"Surprise
surprise. No world champs for me. Would like to say I understand but I
don't. Guess I need to prove myself?" -
Mark Renshaw CyclingWeekly
"Conspicuous
absences from U.S. men's road worlds team: No Leipheimer, no Hincapie,
no Vande Velde, no Van Garderen, no Danielson.” -
Neal Rogers Twitter
"I
am glad that Quickstep will have Tony Martin into the team. Leipheimer
has had one of his best seasons with a second place finish in the Tour
of California , an overall victory in the Tour de Suisse and a fresh
first place in the U.S. Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. He seems
like a very likeable rider.” - Brian
Holm VeloNation
"I may be getting old, but I
still got it." -
George Hincapie Twitter
“Way
to represent Created Butte! My ears are still ringing. The
@USAProChallenge is really an incredible race.” -
Tom
Danielson Twitter
“We are looking towards a golden
era. We are certainly coming out of a dark period, and we’re not yet
through everything. From the anti-doping point of view, we must not
take our foot off the pedal.” - Pat
McQuaid Yahoo!
“[Pepe
Martí was] nothing more than a known drug-trafficker. During my time as
a rider at US Postal he sold me growth hormones, EPO and other illegal
substances.” - Floyd Landis CyclingNews
“I said: 'Look Jim [Ochowicz],
you want to bring a sprinter to the team, I don't want to ride with a
sprinter, because I've done that and I've done my share. 'If I do the
Tour I want to do it for the win.' - Cadel Evans VeloNation
““The
team has had unmatched athletic success. The dedication shown by our
athletes, management team and staff year after year has been
exceptional. Together they created one of the most successful teams in
cycling's history.” - Bob Stapleton VeloNation
“So, he’s [Philip Gilbert] raced
25 out of 28 days and still has the juice to ride away solo to win a
World Cup.” -
Steve Tilford SteveTilford
“How
many folks can say that they played catch with Babe Ruth? One
on one
with Jordan? You get the drift. Well I rode with Lance
Armstrong.” -
Harper RAGBRAIHarper
“Russia's
Alexandr Kolobnev will receive the "Knight of the Order" by President
Medvedev for "for services to the Motherland". I kid you
not.” - Inner
Ring Twitter
“Dear
Phil Lighhett and Paul Sherwen, please please stop calling Mark
Cavendish "The Missile" that name is all mine :):):) I'm going to sue
you guys for doing this :):):)” - Ivan Dominguez Facebook
“And
here's a first... Got pulled over IN the race today by a gendarme and
he made me do an alcohol test, duriing the race...” - Johan
Bruyneel Twitter
“Nobody can be blamed for this.
It’s a horrible accident and I was in it. But I said to Flecha, ‘We’re
still alive and Wouter Weylandt died in a crash.'” - Johnny
Hoogerland Bicycling
“"I've
got a huge headache .Every kilometre was one too many. I was wondering,
'who am I pleasing by continuing?' Not myself, that's for
sure. I was a
danger for the other riders, too. I think I suffered a concussion.
Noise, colors... I couldn't stand them. A honking car that passed was
echoing a thousand times in my head.” - Tom Boonen CyclingNews
“Tyler Farrar is a sprinter
disguised as a gentleman.” - Bonnie D. Ford ESPN
“A
monkey with two left thumbs and a rusty typewriter could write the Tour
de France’s recent dope-smeared history, because it does not take a
genius to attach a long string of question marks and asterisks to all
the dubious and downright discredited results registered at cycling’s
premier race over the past 15 years or more. Sadly, this year, again,
may be no exception.” - John Leicester Yahoo!
“I prefer that (doping cases)
are not decided this way, above all for the delays and slowness of the
ordinary courts. In Heras’s case, we’re seeing important changes six
years later. And next we have the Contador case and we’ll
see how that ends up. I prefer faster procedures of sport
justice.” - Javier Guillén VeloNews
““We
can see, for example, a change in the value of certain parameters,
which are completely different in 2010 to what they were in 2008 or
2009. Obviously, that leads us to suppose that some kind of
manipulation has taken place." - UCI doctor Mario Zorzoli Bicycling
“Here's
Solar's injuries - Brain Edema;skull,scapula, collar bne, ankle all
fractured, Lung punctred, 4 ribs brkn,kidney lacerated.Recovering" -
Phil Liggett Twitter
“The
shadow of the ongoing investigation into Armstrong is long and covers
riders who may be entirely innocent of any wrong doing. Perhaps
Leipheimer
is collateral damage in the battle against doping? I hate to
think that every victory by RadioShack is tainted as I’ll root for
Horner in the Tour." - Neil Browne BrowneEye
“No
one else has ever been in the frame with the Badger. Not even in the
frame. [He was] above Merckx. The Badger had the greatest athletic
potential of any rider ever. By far." - Cyrille Guimard VeloNation
“So
now the recent evening takes on a hugely ironic flavor. Hamilton, a
doper, is eating dinner at a restaurant owned by marijuana dopers and
is being accosted by a guy who is being investigated for doping.
Jesus….what type of place is Aspen? From the sound of it, this mountain
town blows Venice Beach out of the water!" - Neil Browne BrowneEye
“I was like, ‘Let’s step outside
and talk away from the crowd, but he [Armstrong] wouldn’t. He said, ‘No
one cares.’" - Tyler Hamilton Outside
“After California I
wasn’t training much, so it was important to stay on the diet... my
first real good day of training, five-and-a-half hours, and I’m
impressed with the numbers. I’m ahead of where I needed to be. I
thought it would take another 10 days to see numbers like
that.” - Chris
Horner VeloNews
“A man with his ability to lead,
suffer, endure, obfuscate, attack and defend could be more than a past
Tour Winner. And the times we live in look for such men. If
virtue was added to courage, well, he could be such a one.” -
Alexi Grewal AlexiGrewal
“This experience made me realize
who the real people are to trust. It made me realize that, to combat
doping in cycling we do not want to confess, but to get
facts.” - Riccardo
Ricco
CyclingNews
“What I was asked to talk about
was the process of taking samples from athletes. I pointed to the
example of Marion Jones. She
had hundreds of tests, they all returned negative and yet she cheated
for seven, eight years and then admitted it. What I think is very plain
is that the scientific process - urine and blood analysis - is not
perfect and it can be beaten, and has been beatenm and we know that. So
what we need to do is figure out how we can get evidence in other
ways.” - David Howman CyclingNews
“For the short term future, I’m
sure that cycling is going to go through some turbulence. But I
guarantee in the long term, people will come back and thank me for
doing this.” -
"Last
summer, I received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury. Until
that moment I walked into the courtroom, I hadn't told a soul. My
testimony went on for six hours. For me, it was like the Hoover Dam
breaking. I opened up; I told the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth. And I felt a sense of relief I'd never felt before -- all the
secrets, all the weight I'd been carrying around for years suddenly
lifted. I saw that, for me personally, this was the way
forward." - Tyler
Hamilton VeloNation
"20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case." - Lance Armstrong Facebook "I think we should look at the
rules and get them rewritten. Who knows how Sunday's stage would have
turned out if Contador
was not there. He has the right to be here and
compete as the rules now stand. But it is so annoying that if, in three
weeks, they rule that he must be suspended and his performance should
be deleted. It is so wrong." - Thomas Lövkvist CyclingNews
"The
UCI are the heads of cycling, they can do what they want and we can't
do anything. Everyone sees, cyclists cannot do anything, they can't
protest, nothing." - Yaroslav Popovych CyclingWeekly
“Today, our team mate and friend
Wouter
Weylandt passed away after a crash on the 3rd stage of the
Giro
d’Italia. The team is left in a state of shock and sadness and we send
all our thoughts and deepest condolences to the family and friends of
Wouter. This is a difficult day for cycling and for our team,
and we should all seek support and strength in the people close to
us.” -
Brian Nygaard EuroSport
“I
hope that Contador
is innocent, because otherwise it would be a
disaster. I don’t know all the details of his case, but his defense of
the meat with the clenbuterol doesn’t convince me. We hope he is right
in the end.” - Eddy Merckx
VeloNews
"The
defamation suit filed today by the cycling leadership is nothing short
of witness intimidation and a terrorist tactic designed to take away
from me one of Americans’ most highly valued rights.” -
Floyd Landis BrowneEye
"Nigrelli: “How many have you
done?”
Ballan: “This is the fifth one.” He then adds a little later: “This is how I’ve done EPO...” - Alessandro Ballan and Guido Nigrelli CyclingNews "We have no intention of wasting
any more time or money on Floyd Landis. He is a person who is
so discredited already that it would be impossible to discredit him
anymore." - Mark Fabiani road.cc
“I have submitted a letter to
WADA that I will cooperate fully with any questions they have regarding
my past. I hope I am given another chance, but I
understand that it isn't as simple as just asking to be forgiven and
then jumping back into the top level. I will earn it. Slowly and
patiently. And I will show that I can be a positive force in
cycling. To
be in contact with Vaughters is an honor on its own, making a comeback
at his team is a dream.” - Thomas Dekker
CyclingNews
“I
had two positive tests for pregnancy the day before the World Cup in
South Africa. I am six weeks along. With my team’s support, I
chose not to start the World Cup.” - Willow Koerber SingleTrack
“It’s not a big surprise that
they’re using the race radio issue against the UCI. We
are aware that meetings are taking place. One or two of those big team
owners are actively discussing a breakaway league with venture capital
to put the money up. This is a bit of a red-herring. There’s a lot of
talk about democracy, but that’s bullshit. The teams talk
about the long-term vision of the sport, but their vision only goes as
far as their nose. The teams are only interested in their own
self-interest.” - Pat
McQuaid VeloNews
“I don’t know, I was just
following the big master Fabian.
Normally you can trust him blind and
follow him with your eyes closed. I can trust him and be confident with
and everything. He actually felt sorry afterward. He just crashed in
front of me. I don’t know how it happened but I just tumbled over
him.” - Fränk Schleck
CyclingNews
“Carlos
Barredo is as mad as a hatter, a real gem. Together with
Oscar Freire, they form a real comic duo.” - Robert Gesink VeloNation
“Lance
Armstrong should be able to take on all responsibility, as Laurent
Fignon had the courage to do so, acknowledging that he had taken
performance-enhancing drugs and that they were probably the cause of
the disease which he suffered.” - Chantal Jouanno VeloNation
“How do you stop
Cancellara? You have to outnumber him. Have people who can go
with every move. Be active in every phase of the race. Work as a team
against an individual and hope to improve your chances.” - Jonathan
Vaughters. CycleSport
“Since San
Remo,
and then at Flanders, people have seen the amazing side of cycling.
What people want is all the favorites at the front early. But for us
racing, it was pretty tough, the hardest season so far.” - Fabian Cancellara. VeloNews
“Steve Tilford is an animal. I
think he was beating my dad in races 30 years ago, and now he beats me.
Must be a family thing." - Lawson Craddock Twitter
“Riding
badly or having a bad race doesn’t make one a bad bike racer. But, it
does challenge one’s self esteem, at least for a short while." - Steve Tilford SteveTilford
“It's
always my biggest pet-peeve when I lose GC hopes and my friends tell me
'you should just go in a breakaway'. They have no idea how hard it is
to get into one of those damn things. Then once you're there you need
to ride in the wind all day. Getting into breakaways sucks!” - Tejay van Garderen PodiumCafe
“Other
values have appeared that are ten times over the higher value from
so-called plasticizers [such as di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) –
ed.], which are used in blood bags. These values were measured one day
before the positive dope control. These blood bag softener values could
indicate that autologous blood
doping may have been performed.” - Hajo Seppelt VeloNation
"Really
disappointed to fall ill on the last day of Volta Catalunya. Believe me
I'd race if I could, but I'm down for the count. Thank you to my Team RadioShack teammates
for all their hard work, I'm sorry to let you
down!" - Levi Leipheimer VeloNation
“ I
have said to Pat McQuaid many times that I don’t know any
relation
between a boss and an employee where the boss cannot give orders. If
you pay someone, then you must be able to give them direction.” - Johan
Bruyneel VeloNews
“There is a risk of a breakaway
from the UCI, of course there is. But it's early to talk about it and RCS Sport is obliged to stay on the side
of the sport that has been created by the national and international
federations.” - Angelo
Zomegnan CyclingNews
“So,
there is going to be a mutiny by the Professional Teams from the UCI?
Led by JB [Johan Bruyneel], it seems. This is the only explanation of
why the USAC would defy the radio ban. Steve Johnson and Co. must be
aware of all the happenings and have decided to take sides early. It
only makes sense.” - SteveTilford SteveTilford
“The
descent was dangerous and on a curve to the left, the wheel hit a bump
and I went flying into a dump. We weren’t using ear-pieces, so nobody
could advise me it was there. I saw that the race was passing by and I
was screaming, but nobody heard me. As best I could, I crawled up to
the edge
of the road so they could see me. It was a bad moment because
I could quickly see that it was something serious.” - Rubén Plaza VeloNews
"Another
very tricky stage to end PN, they threw every curve in Nice at us
today. I'd say it was a good week for Team RadioShack." - Levi Leipheimer FaceBook
"There’s
a lot of talk of the next big ‘whoever,’ all I can say to that is that
I am a completely different than any other rider. Everyone is
different. I am going to do my best to be the best
"Too much of a good thing is
wonderful." - Mae West QuotationsPage
"If
I had a fatal crash, who of you, who think the radio ban is a great
idea, will go to Berlin and explain to my six children that
it was the
right decision and daddy was just an unlucky victim in the so important
battle for more drama in cycling?”
- Jens Voigt CycleSport
"It's
not the first time that a national federation excuses their own
athlete. We've had cases of that kind even as far back as the 1980s,
and so far there has been no hearing panel that has accepted those
arguments in the end. We've had national panels that have excused those
athletes, but when it came to the final decision, they have all been
ruled guilty. It's not just clenbuterol. People claim they have been
doped from what they had eaten."
- Prof. Arne Ljungqvist NPR
"The
mark-up can be anywhere from 10 to 100 times. You spend a dollar and
you make $100. That’s a pretty good investment. They buy the raw
materials and then they put them together in a kitchen laboratory."
David Howman
CyclingNews
“I've
been in front of a court in France for the Festina case, and I've asked
them to put my fingers in the air (and swear under oath) that under my
presidency I have never hidden away one case. I was a witness and
didn't need to do it, but I said I to the judge that I wanted to do
that. But that didn't impress anybody. Yet it's enough that a guy like
Landis say something and 'pop' (everything happens)." - Hein
Verbruggen CyclingNews
"Just read the Verbruggen interview - he comes off sounding really douche." - Neil Browne Twitter “I’m broke, so go ahead and sue,
good luck.” - Floyd Landis DaveMoulton
“I'm
not saying that the Spaniard has done anything wrong. I just don't
know. I do know that others in the same situation have been suspended.
Why not him?” -
"There
are riders out there that I have my suspicions of but most of what you
see today is done on bread and water and that's the truth. I'm not
trying to build myself up by saying I'm clean and racing against all
these dopers, I'm saying there are just one or two out there that are
getting away with it. It's shitty that they are but that's the truth."
- Tejay Van Garderen CyclingNews
“I
was relatively sure [of winning the Tour]. I mean, I know Pereiro and I
know he wasn’t going to have any new tricks that he hadn’t already
tried. I had talked to him about it and he told me that he had another
blood transfusion to do, but I still wasn’t concerned because I was a
better time triallist than him, regardless." - Floyd Landis CyclingNews
"Why
should I accept a one-year ban if I did absolutely nothing? It
sincerely does not seem like the right step." - Alberto
Contador SBS
"My
first impressions of Lance were that he was a bit of an a**hole. He
wasn't like the guy in his book. He was obnoxious and loved strip
clubs. We only became friends as far as we could be friends - he was so
controlling." - Floyd Landis EuroSport
" The
one thing I would add about Armstrong is that I’m not sure he’s as
proud of the person he is today as I am of myself. Whatever you do in
life, you have to accept the consequences of your actions, like I
accepted the consequences of my decision to get out of cycling, without
looking back. So I hope that he has the mental resources and the money
to deal with the consequences of what he’s done all these years, I
really do." - Christophe
Bassons CyclingNews
"If
I had any reason to believe that the people running the sport really
wanted to fix it, I may have said, 'If I wait long enough, I'll have my
chance to win without doping.' But there was no scenario in my mind
where I was ever going to get the chance to race the Tour de
France and
win clean. There was no good scenario. It was either cheat or get
cheated. And I'd rather not be the guy getting cheated." -
Floyd Landis VeloNews
“I
think it's best at this time to go back to my family. I hope and I'm
sure that I will be back with you here soon.” - Alberto
Contador CyclingNews
“Alberto has ten days to file an
appeal. At the end of that time period, the Competition Committee will
meet, look at his arguments and render its final decision. The
Federation has not been the one that leaked the
information, It can only have come from the environment of the
athlete, but that is speculation.” - Carlos Castano CyclingNews
"Pro cycling is killing itself
slowly, with drugs, indecision and incompetence." -
Robot RedKitePrayer
“You
just never know but you just look at the way his [Floyd Landis] life
has gone over the last five years and you think there’s one person who
it would have been so easy to have just admitted it when it happened in
2006, come clean if he did do it and he would have been back racing in
a professional team making pretty good money. It’s quite sad how his
life has gone away, just dwindled away and now there’s all these claims
and counter claims and it’s quite a sad story for him.” - Bradley
Wiggins CyclingNews
"I
leave knowing that I did my best and I don't need somebody to give me a
plaque or give me a statue, it has been very good to me on a lot of
levels, it has been a good ride." - Lance Armstrong eurosport
“Until you've lost your
reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." - Margaret
Mitchell QuotationsPage
“I
rode with Cavendish. He will again be ‘the’ rival, even if he needs
to stay calmer and not dwell on rivalries. He treats every
race
like a
war and he’s wrong.” - Alessandro
Petacchi CyclingNews
“This
year would have been a vintage case without Contador. The season was
decapitated by that event. You can tell me that there is practically an
affair every year, but here, it affected the top of the world rankings,
the triple winner of the Tour…it wasn’t nothing.” - Eddy
Merckx VeloNation
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