Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

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.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal