If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

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.

I turn my head so that he doesn't see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.

The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.

We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends.