I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

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.

To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Health can never be divorced from strength.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.