At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

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.

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them, so our heartscan melt together.

Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.