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.

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

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.

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.