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

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

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

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

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

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