Susan Butcher quotes:

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

Dogs have a lot to communicate to a person willing to listen.

I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.