We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

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 matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

We are all we got in this world why not help each other.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.

It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.