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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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 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
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
