The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

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

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.