When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

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.

The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.