When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.

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.