You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

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