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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
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I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
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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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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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