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.

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

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

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

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.

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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

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 options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

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.

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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.

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

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

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.

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

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

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

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

It's tough to be a 15- 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Pain is temporary. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

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.

A bicycle is the long sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

If you worried about falling off the bike youd never get on.

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.

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

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer I think it must be this its meant to improve us.

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

Well I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough they wouldnt have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and thats all that matters.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But thats not nearly as scary as the second which is losing.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

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

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.