The Unwillingness To Accept Anything Short Of

If There Is A Defining Characteristic Of A Man As Opposed To A Boy, Maybe It's Patience.

Through My Illness I Learned Rejection. I Was Written Off. That Was The Moment I Thought, Okay, Game On. No Prisoners. Everybody's Going Down.

It's Tough To Be A 15- Or 16-year-old Athlete Competing Around The Country. There's Tension, There's Media. I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Into.

At Least I Didn't Invent A Dead Girlfriend

Nineteen Hundred Meters Up There Is Completely Different From1,900 Any Place Else. There's No Air, There's No Oxygen. There's No Vegetation, There's No Life. There's No Life. Rocks. Any Other Climb There's Vegetation, Grass And Trees. Not There On The Ventoux. It's More Like The Moon Than A Mountain.