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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
Lance Armstrong
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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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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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If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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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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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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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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I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
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I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
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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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I still don't get golf.
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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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