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

Average is Your Enemy.

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

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

I become a happier man each time I suffer