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.

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.

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.

Slaves in the past were captured by force

You are my strength when I am weakYou are my shield when I am hurtingWhatever you say unto me LordI will do

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

I have gone to the forest.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.