Average is Your Enemy.

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.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

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.

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.