I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

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.

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa, " he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.