Richard Virenque Quotes

In the second part of my life, away from cycling, I hope I will be able to benefit fully from my family and children in the same way that cycling gave me such joy.

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.

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.

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.

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