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

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

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

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

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

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.