Lance Armstrong Quotes

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  • Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

    Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2008.
  • Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

    Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House
  • 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.

  • Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

    "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • 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 In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.
  • I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

    " Lance Armstrong's doping denials - in quotes" by Stephen McMillan, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.
  • A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

  • Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

    "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • 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. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

    "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.
  • 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

  • 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'.

  • When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

  • Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

  • Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

    Interview with Kevin Cook, www.playboy.com. June 2005.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

  • Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

  • Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

  • 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.

  • At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

    Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

  • 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.

    Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

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

  • Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

    Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.68, Random House
  • There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

    "The full transcript of Donald McRae's interview with Lance Armstrong". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2008.
  • I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

    Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.
  • 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.

  • I'm not a patient person.

    "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 207 quotes from the Professional Road Racing Cyclist Lance Armstrong, starting from September 18, 1971! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!

    Lance Armstrong

    • Born: September 18, 1971
    • Occupation: Professional Road Racing Cyclist