When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

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 worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

She owned my eyes. From the moment I saw her. They found purchase on any bit of her that was visible.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.