It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

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