I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

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 takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.

If you can connect people, you can create the future.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.