I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

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.

If you truly want the universe to support you in becoming all you can be

I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit

[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.