I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

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.

A bedroom is not necessary for me to demonstrate my womanliness!

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Everyday is a holiday with me.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.