You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

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.

THOUGHTS COME AND GO, WHAT CAN YOU CATCH AFTER ALL?

If Heaven and angels exist in a timeless medium we call Forever ("Hey, nobody here but us angels!") ...Then ... ues what? ...There will be no end of me!

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.