If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

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

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

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.