Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

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.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.