Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Average is Your Enemy.

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.