It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

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 look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

That's one of those questions I'm asked more often than anything else. Will my dog go to heaven? And I say well, the lion will lay down with the lamb.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.