The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

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

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99