Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

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.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth.

To the victors belong the spoils.

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.