I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.

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

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.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'