My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

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.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.

We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

Never cast pearls before swine.

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.