Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

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.

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.