I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

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.

The two toughest lessons to learn In life are “LET GO” & “LETs GO..!

We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.

You may slip but God isn't going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you.

Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.