One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

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.

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.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

What’s the worst that could happen?”“Don’t say that!” Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.“You two are so superstitious.

I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.