What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

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.

If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.