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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
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
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I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
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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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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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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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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 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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The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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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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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.
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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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