I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.