Lance Armstrong Quotes About Cycling
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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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.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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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.
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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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.
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