Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.

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.

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.

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

We are much better than we know.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.