Chasing Records Doesn't Keep Me On My

If A Script Writer Had Come Up With A Story Resembling What You Have Just Achieved, Even The Hollywood Studios Would Have Refused.

My Mom Was Such A Strong Character. I Don't Want To Say She Was Like A Man, But She Was Tough.

We Have Unrealized Capacities That Sometimes Only Emerge In Crisis.

There Were No Shortcuts, I Realized. It Took Years Of Racing To Build Up The Mind And Body And Character Until A Rider Had Logged Hundreds Of Races And Thousands Of Miles Of Road. I Wouldn't Be Able To Win A Tour De France Until I Had Enough Iron In My Legs, And Lungs, And Brain And Heart.

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.