It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

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.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!