Richard Virenque Quotes

I symbolized doping ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.