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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

Lance Armstrong

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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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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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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.
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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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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 there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
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I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
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It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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