I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

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.

We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love.

...there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself