I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

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.

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

The most beautiful person is a person with kind heart and loving soul.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.