Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

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

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.