I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

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.

Nanak dukhiya sab sansar.

Where words leave off, music begins.

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?