Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

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.

Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.