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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. -- Lance Armstrong
I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals -- Lance Armstrong
Average is Your Enemy. -- Lance Armstrong
I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease ... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today. -- 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
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
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
Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs. -- Lance Armstrong
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war. -- Lance Armstrong
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. -- Lance Armstrong
We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil. -- Lance Armstrong
I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life. -- Lance Armstrong
The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles ... -- Lance Armstrong
Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits -- Lance Armstrong
I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family. -- Lance Armstrong
I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years. -- Lance Armstrong
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life. -- Lance Armstrong
My house is burned, but I can see the sky. -- Lance Armstrong
I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment. -- 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
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. -- Lance Armstrong
The biggest losers are those who care only about winning. -- Lance Armstrong
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. -- 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
When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened. -- Lance Armstrong
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. -- Lance Armstrong
I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts. -- Lance Armstrong
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. -- Lance Armstrong
You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. -- Lance Armstrong
The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing. -- Lance Armstrong
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. -- Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me. -- Lance Armstrong
THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms, -- Lance Armstrong
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. -- Lance Armstrong
For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there. -- Lance Armstrong
People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man -- Lance Armstrong
I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide. -- 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
I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'. -- Lance Armstrong
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think. -- Lance Armstrong
It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus. -- 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
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer. -- Lance Armstrong
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery ... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful. -- Lance Armstrong
The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me? -- Lance Armstrong
Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for. -- Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. -- Lance Armstrong
So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us. -- Lance Armstrong
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. -- Lance Armstrong
If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts. -- Lance Armstrong
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. -- Lance Armstrong
What losing does is, it restores the perspective. -- Lance Armstrong
Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong. -- Lance Armstrong
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction. -- Lance Armstrong
I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done. -- Lance Armstrong
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that. -- Lance Armstrong
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. -- Lance Armstrong
I'm not a patient person. -- Lance Armstrong
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for. -- Lance Armstrong
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. -- 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 want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. -- 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 idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true. -- Lance Armstrong
Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it. -- 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
How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion? -- Lance Armstrong
I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion. -- Lance Armstrong
The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on. -- Lance Armstrong
I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily. -- Lance Armstrong
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.' -- Lance Armstrong
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything -- Lance Armstrong
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs. -- Lance Armstrong
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case. -- Lance Armstrong
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever. -- Lance Armstrong
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. -- Lance Armstrong
I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work. -- Lance Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. -- Lance Armstrong
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that. -- Lance Armstrong
You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. -- Lance Armstrong
It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction. -- 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
Fear is priceless education. -- Lance Armstrong
I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much. -- Lance Armstrong
A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it ... -- Lance Armstrong
Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m. -- Lance Armstrong
There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart. -- Lance Armstrong
What ever your 100% looks like, give it. -- 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
In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one. -- 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
We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether. -- Lance Armstrong
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience. -- Lance Armstrong
There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself. -- Lance Armstrong
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. -- Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme. -- Lance Armstrong
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance. -- 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
Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry. -- 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
We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis. -- Lance Armstrong
Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did. -- Lance Armstrong
If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you. -- Lance Armstrong
I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me. -- Lance Armstrong
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. -- Lance Armstrong
Me and running don't always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn't mean I don't do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you. -- Lance Armstrong
We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp. -- Lance Armstrong
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride. -- Lance Armstrong
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. -- Lance Armstrong
Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive. -- Lance Armstrong
I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty. -- Lance Armstrong
[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow. -- Lance Armstrong
Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever! -- Lance Armstrong
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. -- Lance Armstrong
I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes. -- 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
I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite. -- 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
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
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
You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it's really personal? ~ Chris Carmichael -- Lance Armstrong
When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
When I race, I don't want to lose.
Dying and losing, it's the same thing. -- Lance Armstrong
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. -- Lance Armstrong
Losing and dying: it's the same thing. -- Lance Armstrong
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. -- Lance Armstrong
I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99 -- Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. -- 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
I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'. -- Lance Armstrong
My mom was such a strong>strongstrong> character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. -- Lance Armstrong
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be. -- Lance Armstrong
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy. -- 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 become a happier man each time I suffer -- Lance Armstrong
What will you do with your wild & precious self? -- Lance Armstrong
I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one. -- Lance Armstrong
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. -- Lance Armstrong
There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in. -- Lance Armstrong
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. -- Lance Armstrong
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. -- Lance Armstrong
Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here. -- Lance Armstrong
Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. -- Lance Armstrong
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. -- Lance Armstrong
You know what they say, the high trees get the wind. -- 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
It works better for me to be nervous and hungry. -- Lance Armstrong
I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out. -- 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
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. -- Lance Armstrong
In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond. -- 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
My advice to you is never stop believing. -- 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
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees. -- Lance Armstrong
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs. -- Lance Armstrong
Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times. -- Lance Armstrong
I still don't get golf. -- Lance Armstrong
I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture, -- Lance Armstrong
I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people. -- Lance Armstrong
Giving up was never an option -- 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
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
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. -- Lance Armstrong
During our lives ... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. -- Lance Armstrong
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others. -- 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
We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage. -- Lance Armstrong
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests. -- Lance Armstrong
The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up. -- Lance Armstrong
No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it -- Lance Armstrong
Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere. -- Lance Armstrong
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. -- Lance Armstrong
You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong. -- Lance Armstrong
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts. -- Lance Armstrong
What is stronger, fear or hope? -- Lance Armstrong
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. -- Lance Armstrong
Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz -- Lance Armstrong
My mother told me ... if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you. -- Lance Armstrong
What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person. -- Lance Armstrong
At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend -- Lance Armstrong
Son,you never quit -- Lance Armstrong
Hope that is the only antidote to fear. -- Lance Armstrong
We are much better than we know. -- Lance Armstrong
Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France. -- 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
I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow. -- Lance Armstrong
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched. -- Lance Armstrong