I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

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.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

You are actually reproducing yourself when you invest your life.

Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.

Just a few more years and then we'll join the circus.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.