Originally Posted by koffee brown
Because athletes with their overinflated salaries are paid millions of dollars. So you better get on that bike and ride your butt off.
Koffee
Lance doesn't need the money. At this point, he's riding for history. Someday, he will lose. But it would require a personality transplant for him to do anything else than fight like hell. That's been a cornerstone of his entire life, from teenage scrapes, to beating cancer to winning more TDFs than anyone in history. Or in his own words:
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."