Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

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.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.