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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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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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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.
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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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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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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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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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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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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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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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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 figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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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.
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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
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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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I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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