My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

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.

I Had Many Chances to Lose but I chose to Win.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Country music belongs to America.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home.