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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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't 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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I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.
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I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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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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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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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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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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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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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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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
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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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There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
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The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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