Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

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.

Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.