There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

Eternal love doesn't mean till you die, its what you call eternity, it could be a few days, heck a few hours, but its worth every second

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Ain't fit for man nor beast