
“I dedicate today’s victory to my teammates. Without their help, I wouldn’t have won.”
—After winning stage 16 of the 2003 Tour de France (with a double fracture of the collarbone)
"I'll always look back and think, 'What if?’ But that's life. Life is a roller coaster ride.”
—Before the last stage of the 2003 Tour de France, on the breaking of his collarbone