"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."

"Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place."

"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell."

"Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing."

"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing."

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."