Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

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.

Refine

I cared not a whit whether Time were “a form of thought, ” or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past we are searching how to go forward.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things.

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.