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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
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
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I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
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It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.
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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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