I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

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.

...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We're playing the field right now.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

You can be passionate about anything.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.