Cycling is not rocket science.

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win.

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.