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Average is Your Enemy.

Lance Armstrong

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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
Lance Edward Gunderson
Average
Enemy

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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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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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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
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I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.
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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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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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If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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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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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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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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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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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