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

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

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.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.