Nobody Is Going To Feel Sorry For

Well, You Better Ride Like You Stole Something 'cause You Are About To Win A Stage In The Tour De Fance.

I Believed In Belief, For Its Own Shining Sake. To Believe In The Face Of Utter Hopelessness, Every Article Of Evidence To The Contrary, To Ignore Apparent Catastrophe - What Other Choice Was There? We Do It Every Day, I Realized. We Are So Much Stronger Than We Imagine, And Belief Is One Of The Most Valiant And Long-lived Human Characteristics. To Believe, When All Along We Humans Know That Nothing Can Cure The Briefness Of This Life, That There Is No Remedy For Our Basic Mortality, That Is A Form Of Bravery. To Continue Believing In Yourself, Believing In The Doctors, Believing In Thetreatent, Believing In Whatever I Chose To Believe In, That Was The Most Important Thing.

Before My Diagnosis [cancer] I Was A Competitor But Not A Fierce Competitor. When I Was Diagnosed, That Turned Me Into A Fighter.

When I Made The Decision - When My Team-mates Made That Decision, When The Whole Peloton Made That Decision - It Was A Bad Decision And An Imperfect Time. But It Happened.

Make An Obstacle An Opportunity, Make A Negative A Positive.