Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.