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

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike? — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. — Lance Armstrong

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong. — Billy Tauzin

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

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

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite. — Lance Armstrong

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. — Lance Armstrong

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

Hope that is the only antidote to fear. — Lance Armstrong

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything — Lance Armstrong

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever! — Lance Armstrong

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

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France. — Lance Armstrong

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

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

What is stronger, fear or hope? — Lance Armstrong

Average is Your Enemy. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning. — Lance Armstrong

Losing and dying: it's the same thing. — Lance Armstrong

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

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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? — Lance Armstrong

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

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour. — Joachim Low

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

What ever your 100% looks like, give it. — Lance Armstrong

I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best. — Daniel Humm

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong

I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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

Giving up was never an option — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me? — Lance Armstrong

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.' — Jimmy Fallon

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

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

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

How many times do I have to say it? ... Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.' — Lance Armstrong

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts. — Lance Armstrong

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be. — Lance Armstrong

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling — Pat McQuaid

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. — Lance Armstrong

In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride. — Lance Armstrong

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

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. — Lance Armstrong

I'm not a patient person. — Lance Armstrong

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

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. — David Byrne

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry. — Lance Armstrong

We are much better than we know. — Lance Armstrong

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

What losing does is, it restores the perspective. — Lance Armstrong

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

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true. — Lance Armstrong

What will you do with your wild & precious self? — Lance Armstrong

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

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

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected. — George Vecsey

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

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others. — Lance Armstrong

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