There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

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.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

I will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.