A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I hope his breath wasn't too bad for 'Bron.'

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.