I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

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.

No one knows what path you should follow except yourself. You are your own wise teacher. You are your own Guru.

That’s because they don’t know, ’ said Tyburn. ‘It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."