Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

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.

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

I am because other people are.

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.

I don't know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.