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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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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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I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.
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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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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
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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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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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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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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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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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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.
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I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
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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 guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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