The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

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.

I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days, Bingley.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.