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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
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Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
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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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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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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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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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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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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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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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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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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I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
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It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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Fear is priceless education.
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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
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