Top 100 Lance Armstrong Quotes
#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms,
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#5. 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.
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#6. If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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#7. 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.
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#9. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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#10. If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
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#11. 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.
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#12. There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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#13. 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.
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#14. Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits
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#15. How many times do I have to say it? ... Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'
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#16. What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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#17. 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.
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#18. My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#24. I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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#25. 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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#26. 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.
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#27. The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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#28. Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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#31. 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 ...
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#32. 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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#34. Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
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#36. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
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#42. 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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#43. The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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#45. Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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#49. 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.
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#51. If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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#52. I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.
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#54. Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
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#55. It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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#60. 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.
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#61. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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#62. 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.
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#64. Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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#65. I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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#79. 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.
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#81. Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, "as if death was an option".
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#85. 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.
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#86. Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
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#87. It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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#88. There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.
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#90. When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself ... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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#91. It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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#92. There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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#96. Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
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#97. 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.
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#98. My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
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#99. Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz
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