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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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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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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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What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
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I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
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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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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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I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.
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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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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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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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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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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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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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So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
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