If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

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.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

If you have attacked me, your children will pay for it.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow