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.

Pain is temporary. Quitting 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.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.