Lance Armstrong — American Athlete born on September 18, 1971,

Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He previously won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of those victories in 2012 after a protracted doping scandal... (wikipedia)

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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.
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.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'