Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

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.