So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Average is Your Enemy.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

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

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.