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

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.