Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

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

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

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

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.