Top 100 Quotes About Lance Armstrong
#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. 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
#4. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms,
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#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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#17. I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
Lance Armstrong
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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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#21. There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
Lance Armstrong
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits
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#25. How many times do I have to say it? ... Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'
Lance Armstrong
#26. What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
Lance Armstrong
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
Lance Armstrong
#31. 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
#34. 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 ...
Lance Armstrong
#35. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#36. 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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#37. The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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#38. It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
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#40. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#41. 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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#42. We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
Lance Armstrong
#43. If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong
#44. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
#45. I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
Lance Armstrong
#46. 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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#47. There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong
#48. 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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#49. The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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#50. Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.
Gordon Strachan
#51. Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong
#52. Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
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#54. If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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#56. I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.
Billy Tauzin
#57. Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.
Stephen Rodrick
#58. 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 ...
Lance Armstrong
#59. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
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#60. 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
#62. Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
Lance Armstrong
#63. Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
Lance Armstrong
#64. If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.
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#65. You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it's really personal? ~ Chris Carmichael
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#67. 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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#68. Me and running don't always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn't mean I don't do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.
Lance Armstrong
#70. During our lives ... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
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#71. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#72. I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.
Duff Goldman
#74. Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me ... having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.
Michael J. Fox
#76. I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs ... When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.
Willie Nelson
#77. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#78. 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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#79. I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
Lance Armstrong
#83. 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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#84. The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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#86. 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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#87. Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.
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#89. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#90. Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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#92. [The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.
Lance Armstrong
#93. If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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#94. I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.
Lance Armstrong
#95. I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.
Daniel Humm
#96. I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
Lance Armstrong
#97. 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.
Lance Armstrong
#98. According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat?
Chelsea Handler
#100. You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
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