We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

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

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

We are much better than we know.

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

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.

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.

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.

I exercise every day. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.