If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.