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

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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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.
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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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The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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