You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.
I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.
I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.
The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.
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.
If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.