If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

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.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

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

Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.