I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

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

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

Fear is priceless education.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.