Here’s a snippet from a blog post by Bill Strickland of Bicycling Magazine,

He’s all in, which was the only way he was ever going to get in. Most of us say we would do the same, given the chance. And that’s probably right. But you’re not given the chance. You have to go out and find it, then earn it and take it — then sacrifice more than you ever thought you could just to keep it, the way Joao did. And that, I guess, is one of the differences between him and the rest of us.

Read the rest of it, here.  Have a tissue handy.  I needed one.