The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

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.

There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

It is like the panting of a thousand puppies.

Time is an opportunity with every providence of God to reveal His Will.

You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!