I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

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.

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

I don't even know who Joey Barton is.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair