Lance Armstrong Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lance Armstrong on Wise Famous Quotes.
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 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.
When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself ... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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.
It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.
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.
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.
It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.