The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.

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 she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself.

Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil.

We cry the same tears. We feel the same pain, of hurt, of hunger, of thirst. When we bleed, our blood is one color. The color of the price of freedom.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.