Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

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.

Just do it! let others try it.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.