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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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 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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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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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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I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
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If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
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Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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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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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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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
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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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