What is stronger, fear or hope?
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street – whether that’s the cycling community, the cancer community – it matters what they think.
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything.
I’m not a patient person.
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.
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.
We’ve all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it’s patience.
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It’s yours to decide.
What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I’ve said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.
My advice to you is never stop believing.
I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
I don’t need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I’m happy to help.
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can’t teach them to be strong.
Do it even if you shouldn’t, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.