Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

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.

The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.