Lance Armstrong Quotes
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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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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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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.
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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.
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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.
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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.
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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
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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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.
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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.
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Losing and dying: it's the same thing.
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Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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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.
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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.
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Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!
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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.
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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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.
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I'm not a patient person.
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