I'm not a patient person.

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.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Tagalog sounds like boiling water.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.