If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

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.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

Better to give then to take.

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.