I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.