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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

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.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself ... What's the highest and best use for myself.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,

I become a happier man each time I suffer

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

Son,you never quit

To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz

My advice to you is never stop believing.

Fear is priceless education.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Giving up was never an option

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, "as if death was an option".

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

I still don't get golf.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it's really personal? ~ Chris Carmichael

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not a patient person.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

We are much better than we know.

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.