I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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.

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.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.