The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

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.

If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.

The only thing worth listening to is your conscience.

I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

I don't need drugs to make weird music.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.