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.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
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.