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" Even good people are obliged to deceive. "
Good
Even
People
" If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is. "
Mouth
You
Want
" 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. "
Work
Winter
Place
" 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. "
Me
Excellence
You
" 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. "
Racing
Race
Know
" I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything. "
Without
Win
Possible
" 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. "
Risk
Healthy
Think
" I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city. "
Love
Still
Seattle
" I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been. "
Right
More
Now
" 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. "
Still
Ride
Group
" It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. "
Professional
Liar
Someone
" I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff. "
Target
Parents
More
" I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing. "
Every Day
Thought
Always
" 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. "
World
Power
Me
" More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made. "
Accept
Made
More
" 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. "
Experience
Time
You
" 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. "
Me
Life
Selfish
" Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time. "
Culture
Lake
Bike
" 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. "
Make
Them
Sincere
" Testing, we will never do enough of it. "
Will
Never
Enough
" 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. "
You
Yourself
System
" There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself. "
Yourself
Things
Long
" There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing. "
People
Happen
Cycling
" You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. "
Money
Love
Bike
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