It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
Giving up was never an option
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.
Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
My advice to you is never stop believing.
My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.
The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
I exercise every day. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of the road without a mile of the bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!
It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
We are much better than we know.
No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
I tried to control the narrative.
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.