What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

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.

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

Humanity is my religion

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I married beneath me, all women do.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

Christians are rare people on earth.