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.

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

I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger.""Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.