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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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Lance Edward Armstrong
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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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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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
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I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.
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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 have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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I still don't get golf.
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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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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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