"A slow death is not for me. I don't do anything slow, not even breathe." Chap. 1, p. 1

"Make every obstacle an opportunity." Chap. 2, p. 16

"Make every negative into a positive." Chap. 2, p. 21

"There are moments when you can use your energy to your benefit and there are moments when you use it to no avail. That's a waste." Chap. 3, p. 56

"I thought I knew what fear was until I heard the words You have cancer." Chap. 4, p. 70

"Winning my life back would be the biggest victory." Chap. 4, p. 86

"Because as good as you are at cycling, I'm a lot better at brain surgery." Chap. 5, p. 106

"At least I was beginning to talk this thing down to size." Chap. 5, p. 125

"The question was which would the chemo kill first, the cancer or me?" Chap. 6, p. 126

"The irony was, the worse I felt, the better I got. That was the...