I'm not a patient person.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

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.