They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury asking for more fuel.

I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.

Poetry moves heaven and earth.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

There is more to life than beer alone but beer makes those other things even better.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

I absolutely think women's perspectives should be considered in making economic decisions.