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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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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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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 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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When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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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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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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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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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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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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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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My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.
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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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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