Ocupation: Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Life: b. September 18, 1971
Birthday: September 18
Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
source: Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2007.
topic: Pain, Cancer, Loss, Pain And Loss, Losing Things, Pain In Life