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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.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Texas
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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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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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My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
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Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
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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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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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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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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure I did it for the pain.
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I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
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