I thought equality was non-negotiable.
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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.
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain…. Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said. ’ ‘I don’t understand the question. ’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened. . . and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.
I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.