I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

[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.

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.