To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

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.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

Naogopa simba na meno yake siogopi mtu kwa maneno yake(I fear a lion with his strong teeth but not a man with his words)

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.