I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn’t pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt...

For whatever reason, maybe it’s because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It’s got to be in the right place.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.

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...

I’m on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on...

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.

My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Motivation can’t take you very far if you don’t have the legs.

If I can’t face my accusers, that’s a joke. We did that in medieval times.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

There’s no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can’t come back. So I have every right to come back.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs…And she does it while smiling the whole time. It’s kind of a joke, but then again it’s not, especially if you’re a male pro trailing...

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.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

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

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

It’s nice to win. I’ll never win again. I may have to take up golf – take on Tiger.

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

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

It’s tough to be a or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There’s tension, there’s media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

It can’t be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how...

I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool – I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two...

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn’t work.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn’t been punched.

If we don’t somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we’re going to have a huge problem.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or...

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

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.

It’s funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don’t tweet, I don’t talk, I don’t interview, and then I have times where I do.

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

I still don’t get golf.