Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

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.

[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.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.