What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

I'm not a patient person.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.