Top 100 Lance Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Lance Secretan

#3. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Lance Henriksen

#4. As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

Lance Loud

#5. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#6. 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

#7. What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

Lance Armstrong

#8. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

#9. And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

#10. Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

Craig Ferguson

#11. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

Lance Secretan

#12. I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

Lance Reddick

#13. 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

#14. Your super powers are safe. I made sure your magic underwear is in place, Jockboy.

Joseph Lance Tonlet

#15. 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

#16. One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

Lance Henriksen

#17. Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!

Lance Berkman

#18. God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

Lance Berkman

#19. THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms,

Lance Armstrong

#20. 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

#21. They've loved you your whole life and you've been gone for days. I've just loved you for the better part of a week and losing you just 'bout drove me crazy.

Amanda Lance

#22. Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

Lance Gross

#23. Everybody wants to make as much money as possible. Take care of your family. It's not about the money; it's about status. I want to be ranked amongst all the players. I don't want to just have all this money. I want to be that guy.

Lance Stephenson

#24. Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.

Lance Taubold

#25. If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Lance Reddick

#26. Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

Lance Bass

#27. You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Lance Reddick

#28. 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

#29. Lance could be trusted with your life. Librarians are like that.

Victoria Abbott

#30. I love you, Lance." He rattles the frame of the window and reaches out at me. I guess that's his way of saying "I love you too.".

Richard P. Denney

#31. If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Lance Armstrong

#32. One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Lance Burton

#33. 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

#34. I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

Lance Berkman

#35. I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito

#36. War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

Lance Conrad

#37. Fritz giggled. He's the only man I've ever known who could giggle without giving you doubts about his fundamentals.

Rex Stout

#38. And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Lance Ito

#39. One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Lance Morrow

#40. physical, philosophical, and moral

Lance T. Stewart

#41. 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

#42. As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Lance Loud

#43. I become a happier man each time I suffer

Lance Armstrong

#44. They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.

Lance Berkman

#45. You trip and lance
Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub
It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance
Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping
Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab
The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping
The jellied iridescence of the crab.

Robert Lowell

#46. The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.

Lance Berkman

#47. For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.

Lance Morrow

#48. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Lance Armstrong

#49. Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

Lance Berkman

#50. When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Lance Henriksen

#51. The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. So maybe I love you more than baking and racing combined. What? You want an award or something?

Amanda Lance

#53. I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

Lance Gross

#54. I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Lance Armstrong

#55. I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

Lance Armstrong

#56. Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.

Lance Conrad

#57. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.

Lance Berkman

#58. You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

Lance Bass

#59. 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

#60. I really started dreaming ... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Lance Gross

#61. 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

#62. I'm very religious.

Lance Bass

#63. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Lance Burton

#64. It was me who was Bambi in deer season a couple hours ago, not her.

Lance Charnes

#65. When you're unknown, you do it for the love.

Radcliff Lance

#66. I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

Lance Bass

#67. 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

#68. There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Lance Armstrong

#69. Don't you know how hopelessly I need you?

Amanda Lance

#70. If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito

#71. There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Greg Bear

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Lance Armstrong

#75. Love is abstract. It is something you cannot touch nor cannot carry" - Lance Mariano

Aril Daine

#76. How many times do I have to say it? ... Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

Lance Armstrong

#77. But now Cathy had created the restlessness, the indignation, the beginnings of that shameful need to clamber aboard my spavined white steed, knock the rust off the armor, tilt the crooked old lance and shout huzzah. Sleep immediately followed decision.

John D. MacDonald

#78. I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

Lance Loud

#79. You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.
"You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly.
"Not where I'm aiming, sir.

Terry Pratchett

#80. Remember folks, always be careful when you're out at night! Lotsa crazee things go on out there!

Arnold Arre

#81. A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

Bertolt Brecht

#82. What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

Lance Armstrong

#83. 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

#84. Did he ever look at Lance Scott the way he looks at me? Did he ever just hold him and call him beautiful when he thought Lance was asleep and couldn't hear him? Did he whisper in Lance's ear how much he loved waking up each morning in his arms? Or falling asleep next to him each night?

Candi Kay

#85. Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

George Vecsey

#86. I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

Lance Olsen

#87. I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

Lance Armstrong

#88. Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

Lance Mountain

#89. I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

Lance Wubbels

#90. Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito

#91. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Lance Secretan

#92. I'm an artist at heart.

Lance Reddick

#93. My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Lance Armstrong

#94. People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Lance Morrow

#95. Faith is courage.

Lance Conrad

#96. 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

#97. I clench my teeth and push forward. My pen grinds out the first and eldest word: an Ink-borne lance of black fire, scratched into a sheet of ice.
-The Penitent God

S.G. Night

#98. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

Lance Bass

#99. I'm not a patient person.

Lance Armstrong

#100. It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

Lance Gross

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