It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

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.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a name and with age one learns to live without them.

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.