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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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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 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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It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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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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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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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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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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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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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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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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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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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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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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