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

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

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

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.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

You know, I love acting.

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

Everybody's family has different values.

Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.