Average is Your Enemy.

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.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

They say just give up

Forgive me for allowing myself to be hurt by you so easily.

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.