It never gets easier; you just go faster.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Wanna beat the heatJust keep on rocking to the beat

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

The only limits we have are the limits we give ourselves.

Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.