'I've got nothing to hide' - Lance Armstrong's history of doping denials
In the early hours of Friday morning, Oprah Winfrey will air her highly-anticipated interview with Lance Armstrong in which, she says, the disgraced former Tour de France champion will finally admit to taking performance enhancing drugs.
The confession will follow a decade of doping denials. Here is a selection of quotes the cyclist is likely to regret:
1. On his son: "Luke's name is Armstrong and people know that name, and when he goes to school I don't want them to say, 'Oh yeah, your dad's the big fake, the doper.' That would just kill me."
Second autobiography, Every Second Counts, 2003
2. "I was on my death bed. You think I'm going to come back into a sport and say, 'OK, OK doctor, give me everything you've got, I just want to go fast?' No way! I would never do that."
Public forum in Aspen, Colorado, 2007
3. "How many times do I have to say it? Well, if it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'"
Videotaped testimony in court case, 2005
4. "Everybody wants to know: what am I on. What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours, a day."
Nike advert, 2001
5. "We're sick and tired of these allegations and we're going to do everything we can to fight them. They're absolutely untrue."
Press conference, 2004
6. To Sunday Times journalist Paul Kimmage in response to questions about doping: "You are not worth the chair that you're sitting on."
Press conference (see video), 2009
6. "Do we make mistakes, all of us? Absolutely. As a society, are we supposed to forgive and forget and let people get back to their job? Absolutely."
Same 2009 press conference (see video)
7. "At the end of the day, I have nothing to hide."
Associated Press interview, 2009